Chemical and physical changes take place around you all the time. When you make cereal for breakfast, combining milk and cereal is a physical change. When you eat the cereal, a chemical change happens during digestion.

Example of physical changes:

1. Melting of an ice cube
2. Boiling water
3. Shredding paper
4. Crumpling a sheet of aluminum foil

Example of Chemical changes:

1. Rusting of iron
2. Baking a cake
3. Cooking an egg
4. Digesting food