CHEMICAL REACTIONS Level E/F: Homework Sheets
Chemical Reactions
Homework Sheets
Improving Science Education 5-14 (1999), section 2.3 makes the following statement about homework:
Science homework was rarely given in primary schools and was not sufficiently purposeful or challenging in
secondary schools.
The following homework sheets are designed to address this need. The questions are intended to offer the opportunity for
pupils to think, write extended answers and try some simple practical tasks. Teachers should ensure that pupils are given
any necessary safety advice in relation to the practical tasks (e.g. do not drink the water after adding salt, if the tumbler
breaks, ask an adult to help clean the broken glass).
Although entitled ‘Homework Sheets’, these questions can be used to check pupils’ understanding and can be used in
class as well as at home. The material supplied here is not exhaustive. Teachers can and should use other sources for
homework in the course of their teaching.
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Level E: Homework
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What happens in all chemical reactions?
Describe a chemical reaction that you have seen.
thermometer
Janice reacted vinegar and chalk in a flask
and measured how the temperature changed
over a period of 10 minutes.
Time (minutes)
Temperature ( C)
bubbles of gas
vinegar
chalk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
20
23
26
29
32
35
37
38
38
38
Draw a line graph of these results.
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Level E: Homework
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2
Name
1. For each of the following experiments state how you know a chemical reaction has taken place.
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1 (a) Look at the particles of the two different elements.
Draw in the space below what they might look like if they became a compound.
(b) The compound made is called magnesium oxide.
What would be the names of the two elements used to make this compound?
(c) What are compounds made from?
2 An enquiring scientist found three gas jars with sealed lids.
He knew they contained three different gases but the labels has fallen off.
The gas in jar A relit a glowing splint.
The gas in jar B put out a burning taper with a pop.
The gas in jar C turned lime water milky.
Draw lines from the labels to the jars to show the gas present in each.
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS: Level F: Homework
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1
Matthew wanted to find out which type of marble would produce 20 ml of gas the fastest when
added to sulphuric acid.
The time taken to produce the quantity of gas is shown for two of the reactions in the table
below.
Marble
Time taken to produce 20 ml of gas (s)
powdered
18
flaked
chips
25
lump
Complete the table to show the time that might be taken for the other two reactions to produce
20 ml of the gas.
Which type of marble was the slowest to produce 20 ml of the gas?
If 4g of powdered marble had been used instead of 2g, how long do you think it would have
taken to produce 20 ml of the gas?
2.
A pupil adds a lump of chalk to a beaker of acid, which reacts giving off bubbles of gas.
What difference would he have seen if he had used powdered chalk instead of a lump?
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Ross decided to find out which concentration of acid dissolved eggshells fastest.
He carried out the following steps but the order has been jumbled up.
A.
B.
Time how long it takes the eggshells to dissolve.
Measure 10 ml of the 1% acid into a boiling tube.
C.
D.
Repeat the experiment wit theother three concentrations of acid.
Compare the time taken for the acids to dissolve the eggshells.
E.
Add 0.5 grams of eggshells into the acid.
Sort out the steps into the correct order to carry out the experiment, by writing the correct letter in the
spaces below. The first step has been inserted for you.
First
B
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Here is the table of Ross’s results.
Concentration of acid
Time taken to dissolve the eggshells (s)
1%
5%
10%
2%
90
55
35
75
Fill in the correct concentration of acid in the sentences below.
was the fastest at dissolving eggshells.
was the slowest at dissolving eggshells.
Calculate the average time taken to dissolve the eggshells.
seconds
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Put a tick in the box of those which show a chemical reaction.
dissolving a spoonful
of sugar in tea
a sparkler burning
lava from a volcano
cooling
freezing orange juice to
make an ice lolly
car engine burns up
petrol
mixing ingredients
for a cake
magnesium ribbon burns
leaving white ash
water in cloud freezes
to form snowflakes
logs burning in a fire
milk of magnesia cures an
upset stomach caused by
too much acid produced
frying an egg
dissolving stock cubes
to make soup
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