Understanding Diffusion
A Grade 1 science worksheet to introduce the concept of diffusion through simple observations.
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Understanding Diffusion
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Pay attention to how things move and spread out!
What is Diffusion?
Diffusion is when things spread out from where there is a lot of them to where there is not many. Think about a smell spreading in a room!
1. When you spray perfume, the smell will all over the room.
2. If you put a drop of food coloring in water, it will out.
1. What happens when you open a juice box in the classroom?
The smell stays only by the box.
The smell spreads around the room.
The juice disappears.
Nothing happens.
2. If you put a teabag in hot water, what will happen to the color?
It stays in the teabag.
It spreads into the water.
The water gets cold.
The teabag floats.
1. Diffusion means things stay in one small spot.
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False
2. Smoke from a campfire spreads out into the air.
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False
Draw a picture that shows something diffusing. (Example: a drop of ink spreading in water)
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