CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHANGE WORKSHEET
Define the following two terms:
Chemical Change:
Physical Change:
Label each process as a physical or chemical change:
1. perfume evaporating on your skin
2. butter melting
3. wood rotting
4. lighting charcoal to heat a grill
5. autumn leaves changing color
6. a hot glass cracking when placed in cold water
7. melting copper metal
8. burning sugar
9. mixing sugar in water
10. digesting food
11. freezing water to make ice cubes
12. melting gold to make jewelry
13. burning gasoline in a lawnmower
14. boiling water for soup
15. tearing a piece of aluminum foil
16. boiling
17. burning (combustion)
18. condense
19. corrode
20. crumple
21. ferment
22. melt
23. rust
24. grating cheese
25. melting cheese
26. fermenting of cheese
27. freeze
28. oxidize
29. tarnish
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Label each process as a physical or chemical change:
30. fireworks explode
31. grind
32. vaporize
33. photosynthesis
34. sublimation
35. mixing two cheeses in a bowl
36. fogging a mirror with your breath
37. breaking a bone
38. mending a broken bone
39. burning paper
40. slicing potatoes for fries
41. mixing sugar with coffee
42. frying chicken
43. a nail rusting
44. paper ripping
45. wood burning
46. mixing water and food coloring
47. taste
48. vision
49. blood clotting
50. growth
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