8F End of Unit Test Standard (S)

The Periodic Table

End of Unit Test
Standard
Year 8

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1 Look at the table of substances below. Write in a suitable heading for the second column and
add another example to the first column.

Man-made substances
plastic wood

concrete seawater

nylon sand

air

[2 marks]

2 The diagrams below show apparatus that could be used to test the properties of a liquid.
In each case suggest what property it could be used to test.
Some of the words in the box below can be used in your answer.

colour point electricity boiling hardness heat

melting strength conduction

a b

[1 mark] [1 mark]

3 The properties of a substance describe what it looks like or how it behaves.

Look at the three substances shown below.

a Describe one property that is similar for any two of these substances.

[1 mark]
b Describe one difference in property between any two of these substances.

[1 mark]

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4 a Name the changes of state shown by the diagrams below.

i ii

[2 marks]b Are changes of state like this reversible or irreversible changes?

Explain your reasoning.

[1 mark]

5 John is having a barbecue. He is using charcoal as the fuel and he is cooking beef burgers.

a Describe two chemical reactions that must happen in John’s barbecue.

[2 marks]

b What happens in all chemical reactions?

[1 mark]

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c Here are a list of substances which are used in the home.

sodium chloride carbon oxygen magnesium hydroxide

carbon dioxide iron

Which of these substances are elements?

[1 mark]

d Explain the difference between the atoms in an element and in a compound.

[1 mark]

6 Our ideas about the make-up of substances have changed since the time of the Greek
philosophers Plato, Aristotle and Democritus.

Complete these sentences about our ideas about substances.

a We now know that there are about 100 simple substances called
which make up everything.
[1 mark]

b International symbols are used to represent modern elements.

The element with the symbol N is called

The symbol for the element chlorine is

[1 mark]

c Of Plato’s four ‘elements’, the one called is a compound.

[1 mark]

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7 A class was asked to measure the increase in mass that

occurred when a 1 g piece of magnesium was burned, as
shown opposite.

Class results
Group Increase in mass (g)
1 0.19

2 0.22

3 0.23

4 0.22

5 0.02

6 0.24

a Name the compound formed by burning magnesium.

[1 mark]
b Identify the anomalous result (outlier) in the class results table and explain your choice.

[2 marks]
c Calculate the mean increase in mass in grams for this set of results, dealing with any
anomalous results appropriately.

[2 marks]

8 Dmitri Mendeleev published his ideas about

classifying elements in 1869. His first periodic
table is shown opposite.
a Give the symbols for two examples of
halogens from the table opposite.

and

[1 mark]
b Why did Mendeleev choose to put particular elements in the same group?

[1 mark]

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9 An outline of a modern periodic table is shown below.

a Which of the elements i to vi are non-metals?

[1 mark]

b Which element(s) are in group 2?

[1 mark]

10 The melting points and boiling

Elements Melting Boiling State
points of four elements in the
point (°C) point (°C)
same group of the periodic
table are given in the table.
A –220 –188
Complete the table by
working out the state that B –101 –35
each element would be in at
room temperature (25 °C). C –7 59
Write your answers in the
last column. D 114 184

[2 marks]

11 The alkali metal sodium is stored under oil as it reacts readily with oxygen and water.
a Name the gas formed when sodium reacts with water.

[1 mark]

b Name another alkali metal.

[1 mark]

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