NCERT Solutions for Chapter: Sorting Materials into Groups, Exercise 3: SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
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You are provided with the following materials — turmeric, honey, mustard oil, water, glucose, rice flour, groundnut oil.
Make any three pairs of substances where one substance is soluble in the other and any three pairs of substances where one substance remains insoluble in the other substances.

During summer holidays, a group of children collected a lump of salt, green grass, broken glass piece, a small thermocol box, pen, iron nail, glass marbles, hair, naphthalene ball, a piece of sugar candy (mishri) and tried to group them on the basis of properties given in table below. Help them in filling the table.
Name of the material |
Appearance (Hard/Soft) |
Transparency (Transparent/Translucent/Opaque) |
Floats/Sinks in water |
Soluble/Insoluble in water |

Arrange the jumbled word to arrive at the appropriate name of a material and also write two uses of it.
milaunuim

Arrange the jumbled word to arrive at the appropriate name of a material and also write two uses of it.
tcaslpi

Arrange the jumbled words to arrive at the appropriate name of a material and also write two uses of it.
soekrnee

Arrange the jumbled word to arrive at the appropriate name of a material and also write two uses of it.
gavnier

Match the objects given in column I with the materials given in column II.
Column I | Column II | ||
(a) | Surgical Instruments | (i) | Plastic |
(b) | Newspaper | (ii) | Animal product |
(c) | Electrical switches | (iii) | Steel |
(d) | Wool | (iv) | Plant product |

Pick five objects from the word box given figure below which are opaque and would sink in water.
O | S | T | P | L | E |
A | T | L | E | E | R |
C | O | I | N | A | A |
O | N | K | C | F | S |
A | E | E | I | W | E |
L | L | Y | L | R | R |
