Changes Around Us: Physical and Chemical

VSAQ for Chapter 5 Changes Around Us: Physical and Chemical Class 7 Science NCERT

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Q1: Is cooking food a desirable change?

Answer

Yes, it is a beneficial change.
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Q2: What is added to steel to make it stainless?

Answer

Stainless steel is made by mixing iron with carbon and metals like chromium, nickel, and manganese.
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Q3: Can physical changes be reversed?

Answer

Yes, like freezing water.
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Q4: What is a chemical change?

Answer

A change, in which a new substance with different properties is formed, is known as a chemical change.
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Q5: A change, in which a new substance with different properties is formed, is known as a _________________

Answer

Chemical change
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Q6: What is the fire triangle?

Answer

The three requirements for combustion: fuel, oxygen, and heat.
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Q7: What is erosion?

Answer

The movement of rocks, soil, or sediments by wind or water.
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Q8: State the two important conditions for rusting.

Answer

Presence of water and presence of oxygen
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Q9: What is weathering?

Answer

The breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces through physical or chemical processes.
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Q10: What is the ignition temperature?

Answer

The minimum temperature at which a substance catches fire.
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Q11: What is melting?

Answer

Melting is the process of turning a solid to a liquid.
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Q12: Name the process by which water molecules continuously change to vapour.

Answer

Evaporation
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Q13: What is an irreversible change?

Answer

A change that cannot be undone, like burning wood.
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Q14: What is bioluminescence?

Answer

 Light produced by living organisms, like fireflies, through a chemical change.
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Q15: A medicine is the end product of the chain of ____________

Answer

Chemical reaction
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Q16: Condensation of steam is a chemical process or physical change?

Answer

Physical change
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Q17: Cutting of log of wood into pieces is a chemical process or physical change?

Answer

Physical change
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Q18: Name the two methods by which rusting of iron can be prevented.

Answer

By painting or greasing and by galvanizing with Zinc
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