CBSE Science Class 6

Separation Of Substances

Separation Of Substances - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT

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Q1: Name any two methods used for separation of substances.
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Q2: Which method is used to separate stones from grains?
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Q3: Handpicking can be used only when quantity of impurities is NOT very large. (TRUE/FALSE)
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Q4: How does the farmer separate grains seeds from bundles of stalk?
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Q5: Which method is used to separate heavier and lighter component of a mixture by wind or blowing air?
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Q6: Husk from wheat can be separated by ______________.
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Q7: The method in which stalks are beaten to free the grain seeds is called______________.
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Q8: Heavier and lighter components of a mixture can be separated by winnowing.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q9: The method by which impurities and bran can be removed from the flour is ______________.
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Q10: Sieving is used when the component of mixture have different sizes.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q11: When heavier component of a mixture settles after water is added to it, it is called____________.
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Q12: What is decantation?
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Q13: The two liquids that do not mix with each other can be separated by____________.
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Q14: Which method of separating tea leaves from prepared tea is better: filtration or decantation?
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Q15: What is evaporation?
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Q16: The method of filtration is also used in the process of preparing cottage cheese in our homes.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q17: Salt comes from sea water.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q18: How can sand be separated from water?
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Q19: Evaporation can be used to separate a solid dissolved in liquid.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q20: How can we separate salt from water?
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Q21: Water dissolves different amount of soluble substances in it. (TRUE/FALSE)
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Q22: Water drops condensed under a plate that has been used to cover a vessel containing milk that has just been boiled. This is due to ____________.
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Q23: More number of substances can be dissolved in a solution by heating it .(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q24: Does the water dissolve equal amount of different soluble substances?
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Q25: When no more salt can be dissolved in the amount of water taken, the solution is said to be____________.
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Q26: We dissolve salt in water. By what way the same amount of water could be made to dissolve more salt before getting saturated?
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Q27: How is a solution prepared?
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Q28: Water dissolves different substances in different amount.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q29: Which of the following is NOT a method of separation of substances:
Threshing, filtration, saturated solution, sedimentation
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Q30: To separate dust and soil particles from rice, water is added. Then the vessel is tilted to pour out the dirty water. This is an example of ____________.
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Q31: Oil and water from their mixture can be separated by ____________ and ____________.
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Q32: What is the sequence of step that must be used to separate constituents in a mixture of salt and camphor :
  1. Evaporation
  2. Sublimation.
  3. distillation
  4. Filtration
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Q33: The technique that separates a liquid from insoluble solid by carefully pouring off the liquid is called ____________.
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Q34: Among the following which is the separation technique used to separate a solid-solid mixture:
Filtration, decantation, hand picking
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Q35: If you cannot find a strainer or a clean piece of cloth while making a tea in which you added tea leaves. What method would you like to apply for a cup of tea without leaves?
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Q36: Take 3 glasses of water. Add two teaspoon sugar in first glass, four tea spoon sugar in second glass, six tea spoon sugar in third glass. Which one is most saturated:
A) First glass
B) Second glass.
C) Third glass
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Q37: Grapes can be separated from the mixture of nuts and grapes by ____________.
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Q38: Water and milk are mixed in a glass. This mixture can be separated by filtration.(TRUE/FALSE)
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Q39: If a salt is completely dissolved in water, is it possible to separate salt from water by filtration?
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Q40:Method used for separating slightly larger sized impurities by picking is called
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q41:Husk and stones could be separated from grains by
  1. Sieving
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Threshing
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Q42:For handpicking components of mixture must be differ in
  1. Shape
  2. Size
  3. Color
  4. All of these
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Q43:A mixture of dried leaves, stem and seed covering
  1. Pebbles
  2. Stalks
  3. Chaff
  4. None of these
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Q45:At construction sites, the process used to separate small stones from sand is called
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q46:What technique is used for sifting flour?
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q47:How to separate sugar from very fine powdered salt?
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q48:What technique of separation includes wind or air blow?
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q49:Tea strainer is a
  1. Litmus paper
  2. Sieve
  3. Filter paper
  4. None of these
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Q50:Threshing
  1. is the process that is used to separate grain from stalks etc.
  2. is the process used to separate the mixture of sugar and fine salt
  3. is the process used to separate milk and butter
  4. is the process used to separate Mangoes and Guavas.
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Q51:The step in grain preparation after harvesting and before winnowing, which separates the loosened chaff from the grain?
  1. Threshing
  2. Handpicking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Sieving
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Q52:This is used to allow only liquid component of the mixture to pass through
  1. Thresher
  2. Filter
  3. Magnet
  4. Sieve
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Q53:Mixture whose components are useful after separation
  1. Milk
  2. Sugarcane
  3. Both (a) and (b)
  4. None of these
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Q54:Component of sugarcane juice which is useful after separation
  1. Milk
  2. Jaggery
  3. Water
  4. Glucose
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Q55:Which of the following is pure mixture?
  1. Tea leaves in water
  2. Milk
  3. Sugar and distilled water
  4. Rock and Tap water
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Q56:) Butter is separated from milk by
  1. Sedimentation
  2. Filtration
  3. Churning
  4. Decantation
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Q57:This mixture is separated by combing more than one method.
  1. Flour and chick pea
  2. Salt and sand
  3. Pulses and stone
  4. Sugar and Water
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Q58:Methods of separation of insoluble substances from a liquid
  1. Sedimentation and Decantation
  2. Sedimentation and Filtration
  3. Filtration and Vaporization
  4. Decantation and Condensation
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Q59:Methods of separation of soluble substances from their solution
  1. Vaporization and Condensation
  2. Sedimentation and Filtration
  3. Decantation and Condensation
  4. Sedimentation and Decantation
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Q60:Which mixture’s component among below is separated by magnetic separation
  1. Salt and Sand
  2. Iron from Sulphur
  3. Flour and Chalk Powder
  4. Pulses and stone
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Q61:The liquid part collected in beaker in the process of filtration
  1. Filtrate
  2. Solvent
  3. Solute
  4. Solution
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Q62:The liquid above sediments in the process of sedimentation
  1. Solution
  2. Filtrate
  3. Supernatant
  4. Solute
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Q63:) The process of pouring the liquid to separate the sediment from the supernatant.
  1. Sedimentation
  2. Decantation
  3. Filtration
  4. Condensation
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Q64:The process of converting water into water vapour
  1. Vaporization
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Decantation
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Q65:The process of converting water vapour into its liquid
  1. Vaporization
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Decantation
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Q66:Mixture of salt and camphor can be separated from
  1. Sublimation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Decantation
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Q67:Which of the following is obtained by evaporation of sea-water?
  1. Wire
  2. Common Salt
  3. Rod
  4. Pebbles
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Q68:Process of converting liquid into gas
  1. Condensation
  2. Vapourisation
  3. Decantation
  4. Sedimentation
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Q69:Sieving cannot be used for separating
  1. Stones from sand
  2. Husk from flour
  3. Wheat bran from flour
  4. Sugar from sugar solution
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Q70:The grass is separated from the coriander leaves by
  1. Threshing
  2. Hand picking
  3. Sieving
  4. Winnowing
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Q71:Method of separating broken rice from whole rice?
  1. Sieving
  2. Hand picking
  3. Winnowing
  4. Threshing
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Q72:How can to make sedimentation process faster
  1. Adding salt to it
  2. Adding alum to it
  3. Adding sugar to it
  4. Adding water to it
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Q73:Why do we need to separate different components of a mixture?
  1. To obtain the useful component
  2. To remove harmful component
  3. To remove impurities
  4. All of these
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Q74:Substances that has only one type of constituent particles.
  1. Pure Substance
  2. Impure Substance
  3. Mixtures
  4. Impurities
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Q75:Substances containing more than one type of constituent particles are called
  1. Pure Substance
  2. Impure Substance
  3. Mixtures
  4. Impurities
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Q76:The measure of whether a substance is pure is known as
  1. Filtrate
  2. Impurities
  3. Purity
  4. None of these
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Q77:Which of the following is impure substance?
  1. Copper
  2. Pond water
  3. Water
  4. Salt
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Q78:Mixture in which particles of the substances present can be seen easily are called heterogeneous mixtures
  1. Mixtures
  2. Homogeneous mixtures
  3. Heterogeneous mixtures
  4. Saturated solution
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Q79:How sand and water separated from their mixture?
  1. Sedimentation and then decantation
  2. Filtration and then sedimentation
  3. Sedimentation and then filtration
  4. Decantation and sedimentation
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Q80: The process of separation used to prepare cottage cheese (paneer) in our homes
  1. Winnowing
  2. Filtration
  3. Decantation
  4. Sedimentation
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Q81: The clear liquid obtained after filtration is called
  1. Water
  2. Filtrate
  3. Solution
  4. Residue
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Q82:The addition of bleaching powder to the water
  1. Kills the microorganism
  2. Feeds the microorganisms
  3. Helps the microorganisms to grow
  4. None of these
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Q83:) Principle behind winnowing is
  1. Difference in densities of components
  2. Difference in colours of components
  3. Difference in appearance of components
  4. Difference in shapes of components
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Q84:Rain water is a kind of
    .
  1. saline water
  2. distilled water
  3. carbonated water
  4. saturated water
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Q85:This harmful microbe in water causes typhoid and jaundice
  1. Virus
  2. Bacteria
  3. Algae
  4. Fungi
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Q86:The solubility of solute does not depend on
  1. Its size
  2. Quantity of solvent
  3. Temperature
  4. Its Color
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Q87:The solution that cannot dissolve any more solute to in it
  1. Homogenous Solution
  2. Saturated Solution
  3. Heterogeneous Solution
  4. Unsaturated Solution
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Q88:If sugar is dissolved in water, what is the solute?
  1. Sugar
  2. Water
  3. Mixture
  4. None of these
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Q89:As the temperature of the solvent increases
  1. Solubility remains same
  2. Solubility decreases
  3. Solubility increases
  4. Any of above varies with substances.
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Q90:Saturation of the solution has been achieved when any additional substance that is added results
  1. Solid precipitate only
  2. A solid precipitate or is let off as a gas
  3. Is let off as a gas only
  4. Dissolves in it
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Q91:Universal Solution
  1. Water
  2. Sand and water
  3. Sugar and water
  4. Salt and water
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Q92:Substances in which you can dissolve more solute is called
  1. Supersaturated Solution
  2. Heterogeneous Solution
  3. Unsaturated Solution
  4. Saturated Solution
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Q93:The solvent for the ocean is
  1. Water
  2. Impurities
  3. Salt
  4. Liquid
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Q94:The solute for the ocean is
  1. Impurities
  2. Salt
  3. Water and salt
  4. Water
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Q95:A solution that contains more solute than the solvent can dissolve is known as a
  1. Supersaturated Solution
  2. Heterogeneous Solution
  3. Unsaturated Solution
  4. Saturated Solution
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Chapter 5: Separation Of Substances