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Class IX (CBSE)
Science Test
Total Time: 1 hr (C1: Matter in our surrounding) Total marks: 40
Section A (1 mark each)
1. Liquid to gas and gas to liquid changes are called:
(a) Vaporization and condensation (b) Condensation and vaporization
(c) Sublimation and condensation (d) Condensation and sublimation
2. If you decrease the surface area and increase the temperature, then the rate of evaporation
(a) increase (b) decrease
(c) remain same (d) may increase or decrease depending upon other factors
3. Which of the following have least inter atomic spacing?
(a) solid (b) liquid (c) gases (d) plasma
4. A few substance are arranged in the increasing order of ‘force of attraction’ between their
particles. Which one of the following is a correct arrangement?
(a) Water, air, wind (b) Air, sugar, oil
(c) Oxygen, water, sugar (d) salt, juice, air
5. Dry ice is
(a) Water in solid state
(b) CO2 in liquid state
(c) CO2 in solid state (d) CO in solid state
6. Convert the following temperature to Celsius scale: a) 298 K b) 573K
0
7. Convert the following temperature to Kelvin scale: a) 37 C b) −400C
8. What is the physical state of water at: a) 400C
b) 373K
9. Suggest a method to liquefy atmospheric gases.
10. When 50 g of sugar is dissolved in 100 mL of water, there is no increase in volume. What
characteristic of matter is illustrated by this observation?
Section B (2 marks each)
11. Why does the temperature of a substance remain constant during its melting point or boiling
point?
12. Alka was making tea in a kettle. Suddenly she felt intense heat from the puff of steam gushing
out of the spout of the kettle. She wondered whether the temperature of the steam was higher
than that of the water boiling in the kettle. Comment.
13. Why do wet clothes dry quickly in the sun than in the shade?
14. It is a hot summer day, Priyanshi and Ali are wearing cotton and nylon clothes respectively.
Who do you think would be more comfortable and why?
15. When a crystal of potassium permanganate is placed in a beaker containing water, its purple
colour spreads throughout the water. What do you conclude from this observation about the
nature of potassium permanganate and water?
16. Why are gases compressible but not liquids?
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Section C (3 marks each)
17. Define: a) Latent heat of fusion b) Diffusion c) Sublimation
18. What is evaporation? What are the factors affecting it?
19. Explain
a) How does the water kept in an earthen pot (matka) become cool during summer?
b) The smell of hot sizzling food reaches you several meters away, but to get the smell from
cold food you have to go close.
c) Naphthalene balls disappear with time without leaving any solid.
20. Explain interconversion of three states of matter with the help of flow chart. Name the process
of each interconversion.
21. What is matter? State the physical nature of matter. What are the characteristics of particles of
matter?
22. Write the difference between solids, liquids and gases.
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