Exploring Dissolving
This worksheet helps sixth-grade students understand the concept of dissolving, including solutes, solvents, solutions, and factors affecting solubility.
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Exploring Dissolving
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1. What is the term for a substance that dissolves another substance?
Solute
Solvent
Solution
Mixture
2. Which of the following will usually make a solid dissolve faster in a liquid?
Cooling the liquid
Using larger pieces of the solid
Stirring the mixture
Decreasing the amount of liquid
3. When sugar dissolves in water, the sugar is the and the water is the .
4. A is a special type of mixture where one substance is evenly spread throughout another.
5. All solids can dissolve in water.
True
False
6. Heating a solvent generally decreases the rate at which a solid solute dissolves.
True
False
7. Describe what happens at a particle level when sugar dissolves in water.
8. Look at the image below. Label the solute, solvent, and solution.

Solute:
Solvent:
Solution:
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