Quarry Lane Summer Academy, Chemistry
6/8 Homework Assignment 1
DUE before 6/9 class
Homework needs to be handwritten. Please take a picture of your completed work and email it
to tsakogawa@quarrylane.org Thank you for your flexibility.
1. What is mass?
2. What is volume?
3. Explain why a pure compound such as CH4 (methane gas) is not considered a mixture even
though it has more than 1 type of element present?
4. Give 3 examples of a physical property. Give 3 examples of a physical change.
5. Give 3 examples of a chemical property. Give 3 examples of a chemical change.
6. You’re boiling a pot of water because you decided to make spaghetti for your loving parents
out of thankfulness. Is the boiling point of water a physical or chemical property?
7. As the water boils away, the volume of water present is decreasing. Is this a physical or
chemical change to the water? Why?
8. Name the element at the following:
Group 1 Period 2
Group 2 Period 5
Group 18 period 1
Group 5 period 4
9. You have an unknown element that is found to be a good conductor of electricity. It is most
likely a (choose one) metal, non-metal, or metalloid?
10. List 2 intensive properties and 2 extensive properties.
11. What is located on the ‘staircase’ on the periodic table?
12. To the left of the ‘staircase’ are what types of elements? To the right?
13. Is a phase change (solid -> liquid, etc.) a physical or chemical change? Explain.
14. Blood plasma and the state of matter plasma are not the same thing. Explain why.