CK-12 Chemistry Concepts - Intermediate

Answer Key

Chapter 11: Chemical Reactions

11.1 Word Equations

Practice

Questions

Read the material at the link below and do the practice problems:
http://www.dynamicscience.com.au/tester/solutions/chemistry/chemical%20equations.ht
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Answers

Answers can be seen when you click on “Solution.”

Review

Questions

1. Write the generic form of a chemical reaction.

2. What are reactants?
3. What are products?

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1. Reactants → Products.
2. The starting materials for the process.
3. The materials formed by the reaction.

11.2 Chemical Equations

Practice
Questions

Watch the video at the link below and do the examples seen in the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSoRj_iBwYc

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Answers are provided as part of the video.

Review

Questions

1. What does a skeleton equation tell you?

2. Why would you want to know the physical state of materials?
3. What does the symbol → mean?
4. If I see Δ over the arrow, what will I do?

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1. What chemicals are involved, but not how much of each.

2. So you know how best to handle the materials and what to expect from the
reaction.
3. It indicates that the reactants on the left of the arrow produce something found on
the right of the arrow.
4. Heat the reaction.

11.3 Balancing Equations

Practice

Get some experience in balancing chemical equations at the following web site:
http://www.sciencegeek.net/APchemistry/APtaters/EquationBalancing.htm

Answers

Answers given at the web site

Review

Questions

1. What is the law of conservation of mass?

2. How did Dalton describe the process of a chemical reaction?
3. Why don’t we change the subscripts in order to balance an equation?

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1. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.

2. Atoms can be rearranged.

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 3. The subscripts indicate the composition of the molecule, not how many
molecules are present.

11.4 Combination Reactions

Practice

Questions

Complete the reactions and balance the equations on the worksheet at the link below:
http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/chempdfs/EquationsWorksheet2.pdf

Answers

Answers are on the worksheet.

Review

Questions

1. What are combination reactions?

2. Write the product of the following reaction:
Mg + H2O →
3. Is CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O a combination reaction? Explain your answer.

Answers

1. When two or more substances combine to form a new substance.

2. Mg(OH)2
3. No, two substances are formed. In a combination reaction, only one substance
is formed.

11.5 Decomposition Reactions

Practice

Questions

Write the reactions (including names and balanced equations) as requested on the
following web site:
http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/chempdfs/EquationsWorksheet3.pdf

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Answers

Answers are given on the worksheet.

Review

Questions

1. What is a decomposition reaction?

2. What is usually needed for a decomposition reaction to take place?
3. Are elements always the product of a decomposition reaction?

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1. A reaction in which a substance breaks down to form two or more substances.

2. An input of energy (heat, light, electricity).
3. No, sometimes other compounds are formed.

11.6 Combustion Reaction

Practice

Questions

Write the reactions and balance the equations for the questions on the sheet found on
this web site:
http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/chempdfs/EquationsWorksheet6.pdf

Answers

Answers are given on the sheet.

Review

Questions

1. What is needed for a combustion reaction to take place?

2. What is formed in any combustion reaction?
3. Mercury reacts with oxygen to form mercuric oxide. Is this a combustion
reaction?
4. What are the products of any combustion reaction involving a hydrocarbon?

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1. Oxygen.
2. Heat and light are released.
3. Yes, because oxygen is needed, although the reactions does not produce heat
and light.
4. Water and carbon dioxide.

11.7 Single-Replacement Reaction

Practice

Questions

Read the material at the link below and do the practice problems:
http://www.chemteam.info/Equations/SingleReplacement.html

Answers

Answers given on the web site.

Review

Questions

1. What is a metal replacement reaction?

2. Will a non-metal replace a metal?
3. What is the most reactive halogen?
4. What products will I get if I add potassium metal to water?

Answers

1. Where one metal replaces another metal.

2. No.
3. Fluorine.
4. KOH and H2 gas.

11.8 Activity Series

Practice

Questions

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Take the quiz on the web site below:
http://www.sophia.org/chemical-reactions-activity-series-concept

Answers

Answers given on web site.

Review

Questions

1. What does the activity series tell us?

2. Can a metal undergo any of the reactions listed below it in the series?
3. List two metals that cobalt will displace and two that will displace it.

Answers

1. Relative reactivities of metals and halogens.

2. Yes.
3. Cobalt will displace any metal listed below it and will be displaced by any metal
above it.

11.9 Double-Replacement Reactions

Practice

Questions

Read the material at the web site below and do the practice problems:
http://www.chemteam.info/Equations/DoubleReplacement.html

Answers

Answers are provided on the web site.

Review

Questions

1. What are the usual reactants in a double-replacement reaction?

2. List the three possible types of products.
3. Why would you not expect two ionic products?

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1. Ionic compounds.
2. Gases, solids, or molecular compounds.
3. The reactants are all ions; you could not tell a reaction had taken place if only
ions were present.