PRETEST/POST-TEST ON GAS LAWS

Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. If temperature is constant, the relationship between pressure and volume is ______.

a. directly proportional
b. inversely proportional
c. neither a and b
d. both a and b.

2. If pressure is constant, the relationship between temperature and volume is ______.

a. directly proportional
b. inversely proportional
c. neither a and b
d. Both a and b.

3. One way to increase pressure on a gas is to _______.

a. decrease temperature
b. increase temperature
c. increase the number of gas particles
d. lower the kinetic energy of the gas molecules

4. How do gas particles respond to an increase in volume?

a. Increase in kinetic energy and decrease in temperature

b. decrease in kinetic energy and decrease in pressure
c. increase in temperature and increase in pressure
d. increase in kinetic energy and increase in temperature

5. If pressure of a gas is increased and its volume remains constant, what will happen to its
temperature?

a. increase
b. decrease
c. stay the same
d. either increase or decrease

6. If a gases volume is decreased and pressure is constant, its temperature will _______.

a. increase
b. decrease
c. remain the same
d. none of the above
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7. If the temperature of a gas remains constant but pressure is decreased, the volume will
______.

a. increase
b. decrease
c. remain the same
d. none of the above

Use the graph below to answer Questions 8 and 9.

8. Which is evident in the graph above?

a. As temperature increases, pressure decreases.

b. As pressure increases, volume decreases.
c. As temperature increases, the number of moles decreases.
d. As pressure decreases, temperature decreases. 

9. Which behaves as an ideal gas?

a. Gas A
b. Gas B
c. Gas C
d. Gas D
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Use the graph to answer Questions 10.

10. The graph shows data from an

experiment which analyzed the
relationship between temperature and air
density. What is the independent variable
in the experiment?

a. Density
b. Mass
c. Temperature
d. Time

11. A can filled with air is heated to force some of the air out of the can. When the can is
capped and cooled it will crush because the pressure inside has ______________ due to
_________________molecules colliding against the surface.

a. increased/more
b. decreased/more
c. increased/fewer
d. decreased/fewer

12. A car tire is inflated to a pressure of 32 pounds per square inch. The reason the pressure
can be measured is due to the _________.

a. Collision of air molecules with the sides of the tire.

b. Air molecules leaking out of the rubber
c. The diffusion of air with the rubber
d. Sinking of air molecules to the bottom of the tire.

13. Gas pressure can be measured on the surface because gas molecules
will______________on the surface.

a. float
b. collide
c. mix
d. diffuse
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14. The diffusion of one gas into another is due to the ________.

a. gas molecules having similar charges

b. gases combining to make new compounds
c. constant random motion of the gas molecules
d. high temperatures of the two gases

15. A bottle of sweet smelling ester was opened and in a short period of time the ester smell
was detected across the room. This is due to the odour molecules ________.

a. being heavier than the air molecules and sinking to the floor
b. being lighter than the air molecules and rising to the ceiling
c. moving from low concentration to high concentration
d. moving randomly and diffusing across the room

16. As molecules collide with the surface of a container, they create ________.

a. density
b. potential energy
c. pressure
d. mass

17. You are working on an experiment which must be conducted under conditions of
standard temperature and pressure. If the room temperature is 25oC and the pressure is
750 mmHg then the experiment must be conducted

a. in that room
b. in a cooler, lower pressure container than that room
c. in a warmer, higher pressure container than that room
d. in a cooler higher pressure container than that room.

18. A weather balloon is inflated to 2.0 L and a pressure of 1.0 atm, at sea level. The balloon
is released and allowed to increase in altitude, where the air pressure is less. Assuming
no change in temperature, which correctly explains the change in volume for the
balloon?

a. An increase in volume due to more air molecules inside the balloon

b. An increase in volume due to the lowered pressure pushing inward on the balloon
c. A decrease in volume due to a decrease in force being exerted upon it from the
atmosphere
d. A decrease in volume due to fewer air molecules inside the balloon.
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19. I left my basketball out during the winter. What is going to happen to the volume of the
basketball?

a. Get bigger
b. Get smaller
c. Stay the same
d. Inflates

20. In hot air balloons they heat up the air and blow it into the balloon. What is happening to
the pressure of the air in the balloon once it is heated?

a. Getting higher
b. Getting lower
c. Staying the same
d. Inflates

21. If I held a balloon in my hands and squeezed so it got smaller. What would happen to
the pressure inside the balloon?

a. Get bigger
b. Get smaller
c. Stay the same
d. none of the above

22. Which line on the graph represents the relationship between pressure and volume of a
gas?  

a. Line A  
b. Line B  
c. Line C
d. Both Line A and B
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23. Which line on the graph represents the relationship between pressure and Temperature of
a gas?

a. Line A
b. Line B
c. Line C
d. Both Line A and B

24. Which line on the graph represents the relationship between Temperature and volume of
a gas?

a. Line A
b. Line B
c. Line C
d. Both Line B and C
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25. Which diagram shows the relationship between volume and pressure for a gas at
constant volume?

26. The reaction that provides blowtorches with their intense flame is the combustion of
acetylene (C H ) with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water vapor. Assuming that the
2 2

pressure and temperature of the reactants are the same, what volume of oxygen gas is
required to completely burn 5.60 L of acetylene?

a. 2.24 L
b. 5.60 L
c. 8.20 L
d. 11.2 L
e. 14.0 L

27. Assuming ideal behavior, how much pressure will 0.0468 g of ammonia (NH ) gas exert
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on the walls of a 4.00-L container at 35.0°C?

a. 0.0174 atm
b. 0.296 atm
c. 0.0126 atm
d. 0.00198 atm
e. 0.278 atm