Chapter - Air and Water

Task 1: Enquiry Based Learning-Live

Anil was given a task to separate sugar and water from sugar
and water solution.
Could you suggest the method to be used to conduct this
experiment?
Process Success criteria
1. Name of the method.
2. Write the two processes involved in separating sugar and
water from the sugar and water solution.
3. Draw and label the apparatus neatly.
Ans:
1.Distillation method
2. Evaporation and Condensation.
3. fig. 6.6 pg 69-TB.
Extra questions:
1. Explain how a doctors syringe is filled with medicine from a
medicine bottle.
Ans: When the plunger of the syringe is pushed in, there is no air
in the syringe. As the plunger is pulled, air pressure forces the
liquid in the medicine bottle to rise up through the needle.
2.How is the atmosphere useful to us?

Ans: 1. The atmosphere sustains life on earth by providing oxygen

for breathing. It also provides carbon dioxide to plants for making
food.
2. The ozone layer in the atmosphere absorbs the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun and prevents them from reaching us.
3. The atmosphere absorbs the excessive heat of the sun so that the
earth does not get overheated during the day. It retains the heat at
night so that the earth does not freeze.
4. The atmosphere helps in recycling water through the water
cycle.
3. What are the uses of air pressure in daily life?
Ans: The principle of air pressure is used in the doctors syringes,
in ink fillers, in vacuum cleaners, in hair dryers, in the straw that is
used to drink liquids etc
4. In what ways is expired air different from inspired air?
INSPIRED AIR EXPIRED AIR
Nitrogen
Same
Same
Oxygen
more
less
Carbon dioxide
less
more
Water vapour
Variable
Saturated
Temperature
Variable
The same as
that of the body.
5. List the properties of Air.
Ans: 1. Air occupies space.
2. Air exerts pressure.
3. Air has weight.

4. Air is needed for burning.

6. List the properties of water.
Ans: 1. Pure water has no colour, taste, or smell.
2. Water is called the universal solvent because it dissolves many
things.
3. Its the only natural substance that is found in all three states of
matter.
4. Water can absorb a lot of heat. That is why it is valuable to
industries.
7. Name the processes used to separate soluble and insoluble
substances from water.
Ans: The processes used to separate
a. soluble substances are evaporation and distillation.
b. insoluble substances are sedimentation and filtration.
8. Why should our drinking water be made clean and pure?
Ans; Water contains many disease germs like bacteria, protozoa
and viruses. These produce serious diseases in man. So the water
should be made clean and pure for drinking.
9. Why are the cabins of jet aero planes filled with air and all doors
and windows are sealed before take off?
Ans: Higher in the atmosphere where jet aircrafts fly, the pressure
is very low and it is difficult for us to breathe.
For this reason all high flying aircrafts have pressurized cabins, in
which the pressure of the air is kept the same as that near the
ground.

10.Mountaineers who climb high mountains, carry air in cylinders

with them. Why?
Ans: Sufficient air for breathing is present only upto15km above
the earth. This lower layer of the atmosphere is called the
troposphere. Even in troposphere air gets very thin higher up and
breathing becomes difficult. Hence mountaineers who climb high
mountains carry air cylinders with them.