Question

Select the correct answer from the choices A, B, C, and D which are given. Write only the letter corresponding to the correct answer.

What characteristics best describe what happens during a physical change?

• A. Composition changes
• B. Forms stays the same
• C. Composition stays the same
• D. Mass is lost

Answer 1

The correct option is C

Composition stays the same

The explanation for the correct option:

Option C:

• A physical change is a change in which no new substance is formed.
• A physical change is temporary and reversible.
• In physical change the chemical composition of the original substance is not altered.
• Physical forms do not remain the same. For example; The melting of ice where the solid-state of water gets changed to liquid.
• Mass remains the same in both physical as well as chemical changes.
• For example, drying wet clothes, breaking a glass tumbler, drying paints, etc.

Therefore, option C is correct.