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4. Name the table (given to you in the exam) that lists all the elements.
5. What do we call the columns that show elements with similar properties?
8. When drawing the line that separates metals and non-metals, where do you start?
16. In an atom, which two particles are their exactly the same numbers of?
17. We say the charges on these two particles c________ o______ each other.
19. What defines which element you have, the number of protons, neutrons or electrons?
20. Do atoms of different elements have the same or different numbers of protons?
21. Give another name for the proton number of an atom (bottom number in periodic table)
22. What do we call the ‘top’ number of an element shown in the periodic table?
23. The sum of the protons and neutrons in a atom is its m_________ n_________.
24. For fluorine, work out the number of protons, electrons and neutrons.
25. For oxygen, work out the number of protons, electrons and neutrons.
26. For lithium, work out the number of protons, electrons and neutrons.
27. For hydrogen, work out the number of protons, electrons and neutrons.
29. When working out the electronic structure of an atom, do you fill the inner shells first, or
the outer shells?
30. What is the maximum number of electrons that can fill the first shell of an atom?
31. What is the maximum number of electrons that can fill the second shell of an atom?
32. What is the maximum number of electrons that can fill the third shell of an atom?
33. What is the maximum number of electrons that can fill the fourth shell of an atom?
36. What do atoms in the same group of the periodic table have the same of in outer shells?
37. Do atoms in the same group of the periodic table have similar or different properties?
38. What do we call the Group that has 1 electron in the outer shell?
43. What else do you see when Group 1 metals are put in water.
50. How many electrons does Helium have in its outer shell?
51. How many electrons do all the other Group 1 gases have in their outer shells?
P1.1.3 Questions on Chemical Reactions
53. If atoms react and give or take electrons, what new particles are formed?
54. If atoms react and share electrons, what new particles are formed?
65. Write a word equation for the reaction of iron with oxygen.
66. Write a word equation for the decomposition of calcium carbonate by heat.
68. Is the total mass of compounds the same or different after a reaction?
69. What term is used for all the compounds at the start of a reaction?
70. What term is used for all the compounds at the end of a reaction?
80. What is the correct term for ‘breaking up a compound using heat’?
93. What chemical is formed when calcium oxide reacts with water?
99. When the gas reacts with limewater, we observe the limewater turning c___________
100. What precipitate compound is produced when carbon dioxide gas is bubbled through
limewater (calcium hydroxide solution)?
103. What neutral liquid is produced when acids react with metal carbonates?
104. What else is produced when metal carbonates react with acids?
106. What salt is produced when calcium carbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid?
107. What salt is produced when sodium carbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid?
108. What salt is produced when copper carbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid?
109. What salt is produced when zinc carbonate reacts with sulphuric acid?
110. What salt is produced when calcium carbonate reacts with sulphuric acid?
111. What salt is produced when magnesium carbonate reacts with nitric acid?
112. Balance the equation: CaCO3 + ____ HCl CaCl2 + H20 + CO2
113. Balance the equation: Na2CO3 + ____ HCl ____NaCl + H20 + CO2
115. What do we call the building material used to hold bricks together in a building?
116. What do we call the building material poured into moulds to make floors etc.
119. What liquid is also added in 117. and 118. that the syllabus doesn’t mention?!
135. What do we call a rock with enough metal (in the form of a compound!) in it to be
economical to eventually obtain the metal?
140. What do we call the process where ores are ‘dug up’?
141. Before metals are extracted, the ores need to be c__________ to make it economical.
142. Once a metal is extracted, it then needs to be made higher quality by being p_______.
143. Describe the reactivity of metals that can still be found in the Earth as the metal itself.
144. Give an example of a metal that can still be found in the Earth as itself.
146. In order to extract metals from compounds, c__________ reactions are needed.
147. Can carbon be used to extract metals that are more or less reactive than carbon?
148. What do we call it when oxygen is removed from a compound like a metal oxide?
150. Complete this equation: iron oxide + carbon iron + _______ _________
151. What do we call the furnace (like at Redcar!) where iron is made from iron oxide?
152. If a metal is more reactive than carbon, what more expensive form of energy is needed to
extract the metal?
153. Does the metal oxide have to be melted to make this process work?
155. Name the process of extracting a metal using electricity through a molten compound?
156. Is extracting reactive metals by electrolysis more or less expensive than using carbon?
162. Are new ways to extract copper from low-grade ores being researched?
165. What is then done to them, to produce ash that contains the metal compounds?
170. What do we call the process of obtaining copper from scrap iron?
173. Can aluminium or titanium be extracted from oxides using reduction with carbon?
174. Is this because they are more or less reactive than carbon?
175. Are there many or few stages for currently extracting aluminium and titanium?
176. Do these stages make the process of getting aluminium or titanium expensive or cheap?
177. Are small or large amounts of energy needed for extracting aluminium and titanium?
180. We call the other compounds that are in iron from a blast furnace what?
181. What negative property do these impurities make iron from a blast furnace?
182. Does this property limit the use of 96% pure iron from a blast furnace?
183. What do we call iron that is still used despite these impurities/property.
191. What property of pure copper, iron, gold & aluminium makes them useless in many cases?
192. Are such metals mixed with similar or different metals to form alloys?
193. Are these new alloys of these metals harder or softer for everyday use?
194. What do we call the central block of metals not in a group in the periodic table?
199. Are transition metals used in things that must allow heat through easily?
200. Are transition metals used in things that must allow electricity through easily?
201. What particular metal has properties that make it useful for electrical wiring?
202. What particular metal has properties that make it useful for plumbing pipes?
206. Does copper react with water, when used as a water pipe or tank?
209. Are aluminium and titanium useful metals due to lightness and corrosion resistance?
211. Name an object used to access roofs that aluminium is usefully used to make.
213. What do we call two or more elements or compounds in one place but not chemically
combined?
214. In a mixture, are the properties of the elements or compounds within changed?
217. What two elements are most molecules in crude oil made from?
219. What do we call a molecule that has the maximum number of hydrogen atoms on the
carbon atoms?
220. How many bonds does a carbon atom have during covalent bonding? (Clue: sticks!)
221. How many bonds does a hydrogen atom have during covalent bonding? (Clue: sticks!)
233. To remember the first alkane carbon numbers use: m______ e______ p_____ b_____
234. What do we call the ‘layers’ that crude oil is separated into during fractional distillation?
235. Does each fraction have molecules with similar or different numbers of carbon atoms?
236. At the start of fractional distillation, the crude oil must be heated so it e____________.
237. What are the crude oil vapours allowed to do at different temperatures? c___________
239. As a carbon chain gets bigger, does a hydrocarbon have a higher or lower boiling point?
240. As a carbon chain gets bigger, does a hydrocarbon get more or less flammable?
241. As a carbon chain gets bigger, does a hydrocarbon get more or less viscous?
242. What word describes liquids that means ‘thick and sticky and flows slowly’?
245. What third element is also found in the ‘dirtier’ solid fuels?
246. When a hydrocarbon is burnt, what gas is needed from the air?
247. When a hydrocarbon is burnt, what compound do the hydrogen atoms form?
248. When a hydrocarbon is burnt, what compound do the carbon atoms form?
249. If there is not enough oxygen when a fuel is burn, which different oxide of carbon is
formed?
251. When this particular gas burns in a fuel engine, what compounds are formed?
254. What do we call the solid particles that are sometimes released when fuels burn?
255. What is another name for the black residue these solid particles create as a fuel burns?
257. Can there be unburnt fuels in the solid residue when fuels are burnt?
258. What is the main purpose for burning fuels? To release e___________.
259. During combustion, we say the carbon atoms of a fuel have become o_____________.
260. During combustion, we say the hyrdrogen atoms of a fuel have become o____________.
261. What human made weather condition does sulphur dioxide cause?
264. What problem do solid particles from combustion cause in terms of day-light?
266. Give an example of where sulphur is removed from fuels before burning.
267. Can sulphur dioxide be removed from waste gases after combustion of fuels?
268. Give an example of a place where sulphur is removed from fuels after burning.
272. Are biofuels sometimes made from crops that have replaced crops for feeding
populations?
273. What word describes such an issue, when fuel is made at the expense of food?
274. What word means ‘cracking a hydrocarbon into a smaller, more useful molecule’?
275. What energy is need by the hydrocarbons to make them into gases?
277. What is another name for the gas made by heating a liquid? v_____________.
278. During cracking, what are the hydrocarbon vapours sometimes passed over?
281. When the hydrocarbons are cracked into smaller molecules, this is known as t_________
d_____________.
287. Write the general formula of alkenes, in terms of C, H and n = number of carbons.
290. What colour is bromine water, once it has reacted with an alkene?
291. Draw a molecule of ethene AFTER it has reacted with bromine water* (bonus!)
295. What term describes any very small molecule used to make a polymer?
296. What term describes the very large molecules that plastics are made from?
306. Name a living organism that can break down waste materials.
308. Because many plastics do not degrade, this leads to w______ d_______ problems.
309. Name a foodstuff that new plastic bags can be made from that is biodegradeable.
312. What other reactant is needed to turn this alkene into ethanol?
316. What other substance is needed for the yeast to turn into ethanol?
321. What are fruits, nuts and seeds rich in that can be extracted?
322. What is done to the plant material first, to start to extract this liquid?
323. What is then done to the plant material so the vegetable oil comes out?
324. What two non-useful things are then removed from the vegetable oil?
328. What do vegetable oils contain lots of, that makes them useful food/fuels?
330. Does this mean vegetable oils can be used to cook at higher or lower temperatures?
331. Does cooking with vegetable oil tend to be quicker or slower than using water?
332. Does cooking with vegetable oil release more or less energy when the food is eaten?
333. Does cooking with vegetable oil release different flavours to boiling in water?
336. What is done to a mixture of oil and water to make it into an emulsion?
340. What kind of product, used on a face, is make from emulsions? c_____________.
345. What halogen dissolved in water can be used to detect unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds?
350. This turns the unsaturated vegetable oils into h_________ oils.
354. In cooking, these hardened oils are used in c_______ and p_________.
355. The only three sources of the minerals and resources that humans need are in the Earth’s
c_______, the o_________ and the a______________.
356. Name the scientist who came up with the theory of crustal movement (continental drift).
357. Did it take many or few years for his ideas to become accepted?
359. Scientists originally thought the temperature of Earth was doing what?
360. Scientists originally thought the size of the Earth was shrinking or expanding?
363. Approximately how much of the Earth’s radius does this take up?
366. What do we call the gas layer above the Earth’s surface?
367. What do we call the layer directly beneath the Earth’s crust?
370. What currents does this heat cause in the Earth’s mantle?
371. How much do tectonic plates move each year due to these currents?
376. Now, what fraction and decimal of the Earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen?
376. Now, what fraction and decimal of the Earth’s atmosphere is oxygen?
377. What vapour are there small amounts of in the Earth’s atmosphere?
379. What group of elements are also gases in the atmosphere, in small amounts?
380. For how many years was there intense volcanic activity on Earth?
381. What gas did this mostly release, that made up Earth’s early atmosphere?
382. What gas was also released that condensed and formed the oceans?
383. What two planets have atmospheres today that Earth had billions of years ago?
385. Name two gases thought to have been also there. m________ and a_________.
386. One theory about how life evolved was the interaction between hydrocarbons, ammonia
and l_______________.
387. Name the experiment that led to early life theories M_____-U_______
388. Give the full name of the ‘soup’ theory of life on Earth. p______________ s_________
392. What type of rocks has most carbon dioxide (carbon) from air become ‘locked up in’?
393. What do we call the fuels that carbon has become locked up in?
396. Fossil fuels contain hydrocarbons from the remains of p______ and a___________.
397. Does increased amounts of carbon dioxide in oceans affect marine environment?
398. Is the release of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels increasing levels in the atmosphere?
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