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1. Acids will turn litmus paper to what color? ANSWER: Red 2.

The electrolyte is a solution of water and _________ ANSWER: Sulfuric acid (salt?) 3. Which of the following refers to a measure of the quantity of an element or compound? ANSWER: Mole 4. When the charge of an atom becomes unbalanced, the charged atom is called _______ ANSWER: an ion 5. Which of the following type of reactions in which bonds within a compound are disrupted by heat or other energy to produce simpler compounds or elements? ANSWER: Decomposition or analysis 6. What do you call the elements in the first two groups in the periodic table? ANSWER: Light metals 7. It is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom ANSWER: Atomic number 8. What do you call the electrons in the last orbit or shell of an atom? ANSWER: External electrons (Valence Electrons) 9. What is the smallest part of matter? ANSWER: Particle 10. Which of the following groups in the periodic table the most strongly electronegative elements? ANSWER: Group VIA 11. Adding more solute to an already saturated solution will cause the excess solute to settle to the bottom of the container. What is this process called? ANSWER: Precipitation 12. Reactions generally proceed faster at high temperatures because which of the following? ANSWER: The molecules collide more frequently and the activation energy is less. 13. Which component of an atom has no electric charge? ANSWER: Neutron 14. What is the maximum number of electrons that can be accommodated in the valence shell of an atom? ANSWER: 8 15. Which of the following refers to the measure of the amount of negative ions in the water? ANSWER: Alkalinity 16. How are metals containing atoms with less than four valence electrons classified? ANSWER: a conductor 17. Sublimation is a direct change from ANSWER: solid to gaseous phase 18. What term refers to the attraction between like molecules? ANSWER: Cohesion

19. Halogens fall under what group in the periodic table? ANSWER: Group VIIA 20. What do you call the bonding that occurs in inert gases and other elements with full shells, primarily due to attraction between dipole structures? ANSWER: Van der Waals 21. What refers to the negatively charged component of an atom? ANSWER: Electron 22. During a complete or partial neutralization of acids, what is the ionic compound formed? ANSWER: Salt 23. What type of bond results in form the sharing of electrons by two atoms? ANSWER: Covalent bond 24. Which of the following elements and compounds is unstable in its pure form? ANSWER: Sodium (Na) 25. What do you call materials that do not conduct electric current? ANSWER: Insulator 26. The opposite of alkali: ANSWER: Acid 27. The amount of electricity a battery can produce is controlled by ANSWER: the strength of the acid 28. Which one refers to the number of gram-moles of solute per liter of solution? ANSWER: Molarity 29. If an atom contains more than four valence electrons, the material is classified as _______ ANSWER: Insulator 30. Applying a greater pressure causes pure solvent to leave the solution. What is the name of this process? ANSWER: Reverse osmosis 31. What type of bonding occurs in metals when metal atoms lose electrons and the metallic ions are attracted to a sea of delocalized electrons? ANSWER: Metallic bonding 32. Which of the following elements is NOT radioactive? ANSWER: Cobalt 33. Which of the following refers to nucleic acid that stores genetic information? ANSWER: DNA 34. During chemical reactions, bonds between atoms are broken and new bonds are usually formed. What do you call the starting substance? ANSWER: Reactants 35. What do you call solutions having the same osmotic pressure? ANSWER: Isotonic solutions 36. What is the term used to describe hydrocarbons containing single covalent bonds between carbon atoms? ANSWER: Alkanes 37. Which of the following will occur if a substance is oxidized? ANSWER: it loses electrons

38. Another name for dielectric? ANSWER: Insulator 39. Which of the following refers to the change from gaseous to liquid phase? ANSWER: Condensation 40. One of the following statements is wrong. Which one? ANSWER: The mass of an electron is heavier than that of a proton 41. A deuteron is ANSWER: a nucleus containing a neutron and a proton 42. Which one is the positively charged ion? ANSWER: Cation 43. What do you call a substance that dissociates in solutions to produce positive and negative ions? ANSWER: Electrolyte 44. What refers to the number of gram equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution? ANSWER: Normality 45. Which of the following has the characteristics of both metals and non-metals? ANSWER: Metalloids 46. What term is regularly used to refer to a negatively charged ion? ANSWER: Anion 47. What type of reaction has two compounds as reactants and two compounds as products? ANSWER: Double displacement 48. How much is the pH content of a base ANSWER: Between 7 and 14 49. During chemical reactions, bonds between atoms are broken and new bonds are usually formed. The ending substance is called ________ ANSWER: Products 50. What type of reaction has one element and one compound as reactants? ANSWER: Single displacement 51. Which is not a state of matter? ANSWER: Dew 52. Diamond is ANSWER: a pure carbon 53. When different phases (solid, liquid or solid and gas) are present in a heterogeneous mixture, the method of separation used is ________ ANSWER: Filtration 54. What is the conversion of liquid into gaseous state? ANSWER: Evaporation 55. What refers to the property of the substance which changes when the amount of the substance changes? ANSWER: Extensive property 56. If a property of a substance does not change when the amount of the substance changes, it is a/an __________ property. ANSWER: Intensive

57. Mixtures can be classified as: ANSWER: heterogeneous and homogeneous 58. The properties of solids depend on both: ANSWER: their chemical composition and their structure 59. All gaseous mixtures are ANSWER: homogeneous 60. Elements are composed of how many types of atoms? ANSWER: 4 61. The mass of proton is approximately how many atomic mass unit (amu)? ANSWER: 1 62. What is the neutral atom? ANSWER: an atom with electrons the same number as protons 63. What type of bonding in which electrostatic attraction is predominant? ANSWER: ionic bonding 64. What term refers to the passage of an electric current through an electrolyte caused by an external voltage source? ANSWER: Electrolysis 65. When all of the atoms of a molecule are the same, the substance is called ANSWER: a compound 66. What is formed when acids will react with active metals? ANSWER: Hydrogen 67. How much is the pH content of an acid? ANSWER: Between 0 and 7 68. What is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without itself undergoing a chemical change? ANSWER: Catalyst 69. The condition of a liquid electrolyte is measured in terms of its ANSWER: Specific gravity 70. Which is NOT a part of an atom? ANSWER: Ion 71. How does all B families and group VIII in the periodic table named? ANSWER: Transition metals 72. The device which measures the acid content of the cell is called ________ ANSWER: Hydrometer 73. The vertical columns in the periodic table are called ANSWER: Groups 74. An atom that loses some of its electron or accepts extra electrons from another is called ANSWER: Ion 75. In a copper atom, the valence ring contains: ANSWER: One electron 76. Which of the following statements regarding organic substances is FALSE? ANSWER: Organic matter is generally stable at very high temperatures 77. In which of the following is energy removal being applied? ANSWER: Changing water to ice

78. Which of the following is added to the drinking water distributions system for disinfection? ANSWER: Chlorine 79. What do you call a substance that cannot be decomposed any further by a chemical reaction? ANSWER: Element 80. Which of the following is the strongest type of bonds? ANSWER: Covalent 81. What do you call hydrocarbons containing carbon to carbon double bonds? ANSWER: Alkenes 82. The air we breathe is an example of ANSWER: a mixture 83. What is the atomic number of helium? ANSWER: 2 84. Element with the least atomic number is ANSWER: Hydrogen 85. What is the symbol of silver? ANSWER: Ag 86. P is the symbol of what element? ANSWER: Phosphorous 87. The atomic number of Germanium is ANSWER: 32 88. An idea put forth for testing is called ANSWER: hypothesis 89. How many elements are there all in all? ANSWER: 112 90. Which of the following are found in the nucleus of an atom? ANSWER: Protons and neutrons 91. What element is known as the lightest metal? ANSWER: Lithium 92. Bases will turn litmus paper to what color? ANSWER: Blue 93. Which of the following is the atomic number of silicon? ANSWER: 14 94. At the same pressure and temperature, equal volumes of all gases contain equal number of molecules. This is known as ANSWER: Avogadros Law 95. Which of the following refers to the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom? ANSWER: Atomic weight 96. What is the smallest subdivision of an element or compound that can exist in a neutral state? ANSWER: Molecule 97. The formula for Dinitrogen Pentoxide is ANSWER: N2O5

98. The elements if Group 0 in the periodic table are called _________ ANSWER: Noble gases 99. The smallest whole unit of an element? ANSWER: Atom 100. Which of the following groups in the periodic table the most weakly electronegative elements? ANSWER: Group IA

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