What is the biggest difference between a mixture and a compound?
The biggest difference between a mixture and a compound is mixtures are heterogenous and compounds are homogenous. Mixture combined by physical means and compound by chemical means.

List 3 characteristics of a compound?
1. Compounds are substance that chemically combine from two or more elements.

2. Compounds are harder to separate than mixtures. When separating a compounds, another chemical reaction needs to happen.

3. A new substance is produced with different properties from the elements that made it.

Give a example of a compound.
Salt ( Sodium + Chlorine)

List down 3 characteristics of a mixture?

1.  Mixtures are substances that mix together by physical forces.

2. Easy to  separate by physical movements.

3. Structures of substances that are in the mixtures remain the same, keeping their properties.

Give a example of a mixture.
Salad dressing. We can see the different materials in the salad dressing.

Explain what a homogenous mixture is.
A homogenous mixture is mixture that is evenly mixed. 

Give an example of homogenous mixture.
Sea water. Salt are dissolved in the water.

Explain what a heterogenous mixture is.
A heterogenous mixture is mixture that is not evenly mixed.

Give a example of a heterogenous.
Chicken soup. Chicken can't dissolved in to the soup.

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