METALS

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1. Discs of the same size and shape of three responsible for it conducting electricity?
different metals were dropped into dilute
hydrochloric acid. The diagram shows the (a) It contains positive ions
results. Which metal is likely to have been (b) It has a ‘sea of electrons’
placed in each tube? (c) Its ions are tightly packed together
(d) Its positive ions attract electrons

5. Element U displaces element V from an aqueous

solution of the nitrate of V. Element W reacts
with cold water to give hydrogen, but element
Tube 1 Tube 2 Tube 3 U gives hydrogen only when heated with steam.
What could elements U, V and W be?
(a) Iron Copper Magnesium
(b) Iron Magnesium Copper U V W
(c) Magnesium Copper Iron (a) Calcium Lead Copper
(d) Magnesium Iron Copper (b) Copper Zinc Sodium
(c) Sodium Copper Calcium
2. Which of the following is less dense than water? (d) Zinc Copper Calcium

(a) Calcium 6. Which metal has the LEAST tendency to form

(b) Iron positive ions?
(c) Lead
(d) Sodium (a) Aluminium
(b) Calcium
3. From which reaction is a gas produced? (c) Iron
(d) Sodium
(a) Adding calcium to water
(b) Adding dilute hydrochloric acid to silver 7. Which of the following reactions would you
(c) Adding dilute sulphuric acid to copper expect to take place?
(d) Electrolysing aqueous copper (II) sulphate,
using copper electrodes. (a) Cu 2+ (aq) + Mg (s) → Mg 2+(aq) + Cu (s)
(b) Fe 2+ (aq) + Cu (s) → Cu 2+(aq) + Fe (s)
Metals
(c) 2H + (aq) + Cu(s) → Cu 2+(aq) + H2 (g)
are
(d) Mg 2+ (aq) + Zn(s) → Zn 2+(aq) + Mg (s)
useful.
8. The table below shows the results of heating
4. Which feature of a metal’s structure is
 carbonates and nitrates of three metals to the zinc carbonate decompose when heated. The
same temperature. temperature at which decomposition takes
place depends upon the position of the metal in
Metal Products of decomposition the reactivity series. What is the correct order
Metal carbonate Metal Nitrate for their decomposition?

W No change Metal nitrite and Highest temperature → Lowest temperature

oxygen
(a) CuCO3 ZnCO3 CaCO3
(b) CaCO3 ZnCO3 CuCO3
Oxide and carbon Metal oxide, nitrogen (c) ZnCO3 CuCO3 CaCO3
X dioxide dioxide and oxygen (d) ZnCO3 CaCO3 CuCO3

11. Three different beakers were set up as shown.

Metal oxide, nitrogen
Y No change dioxide and oxygen

What is the order of these metals in the

reactivity series likely to be?
What is the order of decreasing reactivity of
Most reactive → Least reactive the four metals?

(a) W X Y Most reactive Least reactive

(b) W Y X (a) W X Z Y
(c) X Y W (b) X Y Z W
(d) Y W X (c) Y X W Z
(d) Z W X Y
9. An excess of iron filings is added to a solution
containing a mixture of the ions Mg 2+ , Ca 2+ , 12. The diagram shows a metal X reacting with
Cu 2+ and Ag + . Which two metals will be water. Which of the following could X be?
displaced from this solution?
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(a) Calcium and copper Chemistry!
(b) Calcium and magnesium
(c) Copper and silver
(d) Magnesium and silver
(a) Calcium
(b) Copper
10. Copper (II) carbonate, calcium carbonate and (c) Potassium
(d) Sodium
13. Five test tubes were set up as shown in the diagrams below. Each piece of iron was protected on one side
by a different coating. In which test tube is the iron least likely to rust?
 17. Experiments were carried out to construct a
reactivity series for metals X, Y and Z. The table
14. What happens when zinc is placed in aqueous shows the results.
copper (II) sulphate?
Test Metal Metal Metal
(a) Copper atoms are oxidised X Y Z
(b) Zinc atoms are oxidised Does the metal liberate
(c) Copper ions are oxidised hydrogen from dilute Yes No Yes
(d) Zinc ions are oxidised hydrochloric acid?
Is the metal oxide
15. What describes the solution formed and the reduced by heating with Yes Yes No
gas evolved when potassium reacts with cold carbon?
water?
What is the order of reactivity of the metals?
Solution Gas
(a) Alkaline Alkaline Most reactive Least reactive
(b) Alkaline Neutral
(c) Neutral Alkaline (a) X Z Y
(d) Neutral Neutral (b) Y X Z
(c) Z X Y
16. What is the ionic equation for the reaction (d) Z Y X
between zinc and aqueous copper (II)
sulphate?

(a) Zn 2+ (aq) + Cu (s) → Zn (s) + Cu 2+ (aq)

(b) Zn 2+ (aq) + SO4 2 – (aq) → ZnSO4 (s)
(c) Zn 2+(aq) + CuSO4 (aq) → ZnSO4 (aq) + Cu 2+ (aq)
(d) Zn (s) + Cu 2+ (aq) → Zn 2+ (aq) + Cu (s)
18. The scheme shows some reactions of a compound
X. What could the compound X be?

Compound X
 Excess HNO3(aq) (a) decomposes at a high temperature
(b) reacts with added limestone
(c) is oxidised by a blast of hot air

Gas + Colourless solution

22. Aluminium is extracted from purified bauxite by
electrolysis but iron is extracted from haematite
by reduction with coke. Why is iron not extracted
NaOH (aq) by electrolysis?

(a) Haematite needs to be purified but bauxite

White precipitate which
dissolves in excess NaOH (aq) does not
(b) Iron is less reactive than aluminium
(c) Reduction with coke is cheaper than
Electrolysis
19. Element X occurs naturally as the uncombined (d) Reduction with coke gives a purer product
metal; element Y is obtained by heating its oxide than electrolysis
with carbon; element Z is obtained by
electrolysing its molten chloride. What is the 23. In the electrolysis of bauxite, the anode is made
order of reactivity of X, Y and Z? of

Most reactive Least reactive (a) Copper

(b) Graphite
(a) X Y Z (c) Platinum
(b) Y Z X (d) Steel
(c) Y X Z 24. Which substance removes impurities from iron ore
(d) Z Y X in the Blast Furnace?

20. What will happen when a piece of copper is added (a) Carbon
to aqueous zinc sulphate? (b) Limestone
(c) Sand
(a) There will be no reaction (d) Slag
(b) Oxygen will be evolved
(c) A coating of zinc will appear on the surface of 25. Which of the following gives the correct use for
the copper the metal stated?
(d) Bubbles of hydrogen will appear on the surface Metal Use
of the copper (a) Aluminium Manufacture of aircraft
(b) Copper Galvanising dustbins
21. Iron is formed in the Blast Furnace when iron (III) (c) Sodium Cutlery
oxide (d) Zinc Cooking utensils

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