Grade 10 Physical Sciences · Matter and Materials

Classify substances and mixtures

Sort substances as elements, compounds or mixtures, or as metals, non-metals or metalloids (salt water is a homogeneous mixture).

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Question 1.2 · November 2024 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 2 marks

1.2 Which ONE of the following substances is a pure substance?(2)
  1. A Steel
  2. B Sulphur
  3. C Juice
  4. D Salt water

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  1. 3. Question 4.2.2 · November 2024 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 2 marks

    4.2 Aluminium is a metal and a good conductor of electricity.

    Answer the questions that follow.
    4.2.2 State AND explain another one property of aluminium that can be attributed to the type of bond identified.(2)
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      PropertyAluminium is ductile
      OR
      Aluminium is malleable

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      Explanationas aluminium has an ability to be stretched into a wire.
      OR
      as aluminium has an ability to be hammered into shape without breaking.

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  2. 4. Question 2.1.3 · November 2023 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 1 mark

    Use the table of substances below to answer the following questions.Diagram for this question
    2.1 Write down a substance that is:
    2.1.3 A magnetic substance(1)
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      Magnetic substanceNi

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  3. 5. Question a · Siyavula Grade 10 Physical Sciences, 2.2 Mixtures, Worked example 1 · 1 mark

    For each of the following mixtures state whether it is a homogeneous or a heterogeneous mixture:
    a sugar dissolved in water(1)
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      AnswerWe cannot see the sugar in the water and the two components are mixed uniformly: homogeneous mixture.

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