Separating Mixtures
A Grade 2 science worksheet to help students understand different methods of separating common mixtures.
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Separating Mixtures
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is about how we can separate different things that are mixed together.
1. Which of these is a mixture?
A glass of water
Sand and pebbles
A single sugar cube
A piece of wood
2. What tool would you use to pick up paper clips from sand?
A spoon
A magnet
A sieve
Your hands
3. When you mix different things together, you make a .
4. You can use a to separate big rocks from small sand.
5. If you mix sugar and water, the sugar will .
6. You can separate salt from water by picking out the salt.
True
False
7. A magnet can help separate iron filings from rice.
True
False
8. Imagine you have a bowl of cereal and milk. Is this a mixture? How do you know?
9. Describe one way you could separate a mixture of beans and small beads.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
10. When you combine two or more things, you create a .
11. If something disappears in water, it .
12. A can be used to separate metal objects.