Separating Mixtures Worksheet
A Grade 5 science worksheet to help students understand and practice different methods of separating mixtures.
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Separating Mixtures Worksheet
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of separating mixtures.
1. Which of the following is a mixture?
Pure water
Saltwater
Gold
Oxygen
2. Which method would you use to separate sand from water?
Evaporation
Filtration
Magnetism
Distillation
3. A mixture where you can still see the different parts is called a mixture.
4. When salt dissolves in water, it forms a mixture.
5. You can use a to separate iron filings from sand.
6. All mixtures can be separated by filtration.
True
False
7. Evaporation can be used to separate sugar from water.
True
False
8. Describe how you would separate a mixture of sand and iron filings.
Match the separation method to the mixture it would best separate.
9. Filtration
a. Salt and water
10. Evaporation
b. Sand and pebbles
11. Sieving
c. Water and insoluble dirt