APEEJAY SCHOOL NOIDA

CHEMISTRY WORKSHEET - CLASS VIII

COMBUSTION AND FLAME

Q1. Food is a fuel for our body. Justify the given statement.

Q2. Name the fire extinguisher used for fires involving electrical equipment and inflammable
materials. What are its advantages as a fire extinguisher?

Q3. Introduce a glass plate into the luminous zone of the steady candle flame and hold it for few
seconds, then remove it? What did you observe on the glass plate?

Q4.A person tried to extinguish fire at petrol pump by throwing water on it. He was not successful.
Why?

Q5. Can you put off a fire due to electric short circuit by using water? Why?

Q6. Hydrogen has the highest calorific value, but it is not used as a fuel. Why?
Q7. Which zone of a candle flame has the minimum and maximum temperature?

Q8. When the clothes of a person catch fire, we cover him with a blanket. Why?

Q9. Red buckets containing sand are kept in offices and cinema halls. Why?

Q10. Mention three conditions necessary for combustion to take place.

Q11.Give reasons:-

1) Charcoal does not burn with a flame.

2) Goldsmiths use the non-luminous zone of the flame.

3) CO is considered as a poisonous gas.

4) LPG is preferred over kerosene or coal.

5) Unburnt carbon particles act as pollutants.

6) We should store kerosene oil with proper care.

Q12.Deforestation and excess burning of fossil fuels is leading to a global problem. Explain
it.

Q13. Why does the matchstick start burning on rubbing it on the side of the matchbox?

Q14. Why different substances catch fire at different temperatures?

Q15.Arrange the following fuels in their ascending order of calorific value:

Hydrogen , methane, cow dung cake, kerosene, wood

Q16.Multiple choice questions.

1.Which is not an example of inflammable substance?

(A) Charcoal. (B) Petrol. (C) Alcohol. (D) LPG.

2.The head of the safety match contains-

(A) antimony trisulphide. (B) potassium chlorate.

(C) Both (a) and (b). (D) None of these.

3.When a frying pan containing cooking oil is kept for long on a burning stove then cooking
oil catches fire because-

(A) Its temperature is lower than its ignition temperature.

(B) Its temperature is reached to its ignition temperature.

(C) Both (a) and (b) are correct.

(D) Neither (a) nor (b).

4.The minimum temperature at which a substance catches fire is-

(A) Melting point. (B) Ignition temperature.

(C) Boiling point. (D) Critical temperature.

5.CO2 can be stored in cylinder in-------state at -----pressure.

(A) liquid, high. (B) gas, high. (C) gas, low. (D) liquid, low.

6.Which is not the requirement for burning?

(A) Heat. (B) O2. (C) Fuel. (D) CO2.

7.The combustion of coal dust in coal mines is-

(A) Rapid combustion. (B) Explosion.

(C) Spontaneous combustion. (D) None of these.

Q17. What is acid rain? How is it caused? Write its harmful effects.

Q18. Define global warming. What can be its consequences?