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Topic- Acid Base and Salt Grade- Grade-8 IGCSE

Time- 1.00 Max marks-50

Question-A
Q1. [3]
Questions-B

1. Complete the sentences using phrases from the list. You may use them once,
more than once, or not at all.

more than equal to less than

The pH of an acid is alkali is _________________7. The pH of an


________________7. The pH of a neutral solution is _________________7.
[3]

2. a. Copy and complete the table to show whether each mixture is acidic,
alkaline, or neutral.[5]

Mixture PH Acidic, alkaline, or


neutral?

orange juice 3

milk 7

cola drink 2

sweat 5

Indigestion medicine 9

b. Name one substance in the table above that could be used to neutralise orange
juice. [1]
c. Name one substance in the table that could be used to neutralise the
indigestion medicine. [1]
3. This question is about litmus indicator.
a. Copy and complete the table below [3]

Type of solution Colour of litmus indicator

acidic

alkaline

Neutral

b. A student has 100 cm³ of an acid. She adds a few drops of litmus indicator.
The student then adds 500 cm³ of an alkaline solution of the same concentration
as the acid. Predict the colour changes she would observe. [2]

4. Choose one word from the list below each question part.[3]
carbon dioxide hydrogen oxygen
a. This gas makes a lighted splint go out with a squeaky pop
b. This gas relights a glowing spline
c. This gas makes limewater milk-

5. Read the information in the below. Then answer the questions.


Your blood is slightly alkaline. Its pH is always 7.4. You would be ill if your
blood pH was higher than 7.6 or lower than 7.2.
The pH of your urine changes to help adjust blood pH:
If your blood gets too acidic, extra acid comes out in your urine. Your urine pH
gets lower.
* If your blood gets too alkaline, extra alkali comes out in your urine. Your
urine pH gets higher.
a. Explain why your urine pH gets lower when your blood is too acidic. [1]
b. Explain what happens to blood is too alkaline. [1]
c. A hospital patient has a blood pH of 7.5. Explain how her body tries to get
back to normal. [1]

6. The table gives the preferred soil pH of some plants.


Plant Preferred soil pH

pineapple 4.5 to 5.5

banana 5.5 to 6.5

Sugar cane 5.5 to 6.5

maize 5.5 to 7.0

cassava 4.5 to 7.5

a. Name the e one crop in the table that can grow well in a slightly alkaline soil.
[1]
b. A farmer tests the soil pH on her farm. Its pH is 5.0. Suggest two crops she
could try
growing. [2]
c. A farmer knows her soil is acidic, but does not know the soil pH. Suggest one
crop she could
try growing. [1]
d. The soil pH on another farm is 7.0.
i. Suggest two crops that might grow well on this soil. [2]
ii. The farmer on this farm wants to grow bananas. Name the type of substance
that he should add to the soil. [1]
7. A student wants to make an indicator from red cabbage. The apparatus
available to the student
is shown below.

conical flask

beaker

funnel
test tube

a. The student first heats a mixture of pure water and chopped cabbage. Name
the best apparatus in which to do this. [1]
b. Next the student filters the mixture. She wants to keep the solution. Name the
best two pieces of apparatus for this stage. [2)
C. The student adds her indicator to small amounts of acid and alkali to
observe its colours in the two solutions. Name the best apparatus in which
to do this. [1]

8. Saima eats a sugary sweet. The pH of the saliva in her mouth changes. The
graph shows how the pH changed.
a. . Give the pH of Saima's saliva before she ate the sweet. [1]
b. Give the pH of Saima's saliva 3 minutes after eating the sweet. [1]
c. Give the time at which Saima's saliva returns to its original pH. [1]
d. Copy and complete the sentence below. When eating the sweets, Saima's
saliva became
acidic. [1]
e. Teeth are damaged when saliva pH is 5.5 or below. Give the number of
minutes that Saima's teeth are at risk of damage. [1]
f. After her meal, Saima used toothpaste to clean her teeth. The toothpaste
neutralised her saliva. State whether the toothpaste is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.

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