🌟 Class 8 Science – Curiosity Chapter 7
🔬 Particulate Nature of Matter (पदार्थ का कणीय स्वरूप)
🟢 1. Choose the correct option.
The primary difference between solids and liquids is that the constituent particles are:
✅ Answer:
👉 Correct option is (iv) closely packed in solids and move past each other in liquids.
🧠 Explanation:
- 🧱 Solids (ठोस) → particles tightly packed + fixed position
- 💧 Liquids (द्रव) → particles close but can slide (फिसलना) past each other
🎓 Example:
- 👨🎓 Solid = students sitting on fixed benches
- 🏃 Liquid = students moving freely during break
🟢 2. Which of the following statements are true? Correct the false statements.
✅ Answers:
- 📏 Fixed shape
- 📦 Fixed volume
❌ (vi) False
⚠️ Energy is not released as smell, it helps in change of state.
🟢 3. Choose the correct answer with justification.
If we could remove all the constituent particles from a chair, what would happen?
✅ Answer:
👉 Correct option is (iii) Nothing of the chair will remain.
🧠 Explanation:
- Chair = made of particles 🧱
- If particles are removed → chair itself disappears ❌
💡 Matter is not a container of particles, it is particles itself.
🟢 4. Why do gases mix easily, while solids do not?
✅ Answer:
🌬️ Gases (गैसें):
- Particles far apart
- Very weak forces
- High speed movement 🚀👉 Easily mix with each other
🧱 Solids (ठोस):
- Particles tightly packed
- Strong forces 💪
- Fixed positions👉 Cannot move → cannot mix
🟢 5. When spilled on the table, milk in a glass tumbler flows and spreads out, but the glass tumbler stays in the same shape. Justify this statement.
✅ Answer:
🥛 Milk (Liquid):
- Particles close but can move (गतिशील)
- Weak forces👉 Flows and spreads easily
🥤 Glass Tumbler (Solid):
- Particles tightly packed
- Strong forces 💪👉 Fixed shape → does not flow