Urbiztondo National High School

DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATION IN CHEMISTRY 1

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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer. A. Mixture C. Element
B. Compound D. Solution
1. It refers to a substance that is naturally in the gaseous state at 15. This technique is good for separating an insoluble solid from
room temperature. liquid.
A. Vapour B. Gas C. Steam A. Evaporation C. Filtration
B. Chromatography D. Simple distillation
2. Which of the following is a property of liquid?
A. Almost incompressible C. Retains own 16. This refers to how close each measurement is to one another.
shape A. Accuracy C. Veracity
B. Slow diffusion D. Highly compressible B. Precision D. Exactitude
3. Which of the following is not a property of gas?
A. Highly compressible C. High expansion on heating 17. This refers to the closeness of the average value to the actual or
B. Very low density D. Extremely slow diffusion true value, or most probable value.
A. Accuracy C. Veracity
4. Which is a property of solid? B. Precision D. Exactitude
A. Very low density C. Extremely slow diffusion
B. Highly compressible D. Assumes shape of 18. What is the sum of 5.660 km and 0.03974 km?
container A. 5.700 km C. 5.7 km
B. 5.6997 km D. 5.66974 km
5.This refers to a characteristic that can be observed and measured
without changing the identity and composition of the substance. 19. Which of the following statements is consistent with Dalton’s
A. Physical property C. Chemical property Atomic Theory?
B. Intensive property D. Extensive property A. The atoms of element A are identical with the atoms of
another element D.
6. It describes how a substance reacts with another substance. B. The atoms of element A have the same mass as the atoms of
A. Physical property C. Chemical property another element D.
B. Intensive property D. Extensive property C. The atoms of element A are different from the atoms of
another element D.
7. A property that depends on the amount of matter present. D. The atoms of element A have the same properties as the
A. Physical property C. Chemical property atoms of another element D.
B. Intensive property D. Extensive property
20. How many atoms of oxygen are there in 2.648 moles CO 2?
8. A property that depends on the kind of matter in the sample. A. 3.189 x 1024 O atoms
A. Physical property C. Chemical property b. 3.189 x 1025 O atoms
B. Intensive property D. Extensive property c. 3.189 x 1026 O atoms

9. The following are examples of intensive properties except 21. Which physical property of matter is shown when a piece of
A. Density C. mass material is turned into a thin sheet?
B. Melting point D. freezing point A. Stiffness C. Flexibility
B. Elasticity D. Malleability
10. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Physical properties are very important because these don’t 22. Copper wires are usually used for electrical wire installations
help chemists in identifying substances. because it is ____
B. Examples of chemical properties are color, melting point and A. ductile C. malleable
boiling point. B. brittle D. cheap
C. In a chemical change, one or more substances are converted
into different substances. 23. Materials that easily break when a force is applied like glass are
D. When a substance retains its composition, a chemical reaction said to be ____
occurs. A. malleable C. brittle
B. ductile D. elastic
11. The substances that transform, or undergo chemical reaction are
called 24. Which of the materials below is a poor conductor of heat?
A. Reactants C. Factors A. Iron C. Wood
B. Products D. Reactors B. Gold D. Copper

12. This is a particle that consists of at least two atoms. 25. ____ is the characteristic or trait that can be observed when a
A. Proton C. electron matter reacts to another substance.
B. ion D. molecule A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property
B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property
13. Which of the following can be decomposed by ordinary chemical
means?
A. Element C. homogenous mixtures 26. ____ property is the characteristic or trait of matter that does not
B. Compound D. heterogenous mixture depend on the amount.
A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property
14. This is a physical blend of two or more components, each of B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property
which retains its own identity and properties.
27. ____ is the characteristic or trait of matter that can be observed numbers of protons.
or perceived with our senses easily without changing its chemical C. Atoms that have the same number of protons but have different
composition. numbers of neutrons.
A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property D. Atoms that have the same number of neutrons and protons.
B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property
28. ____ is the characteristic or trait of matter which is dependent on 43. Why is deuterium 2H1 sometimes called heavy hydrogen?
the amount or quantity.
A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property A. It has extra nucleus C. It has extra electron
B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property B. It has extra proton D. It has extra neutron

29. Color and taste are examples of ____ 44. Which of the following changes would you consider to be a chemical
A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property change?
B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property A. Candle wax solidifies when it is cooled.
B. Baking soda is combined with vinegar
30. The rusting of iron nail is an example of ___ C. Ice melts.
A. Intensive Physical Property C. Chemical Property D. Paper turned into pieces.
B. Extensive Physical Property D. Physical Property
45. All of the following are chemical reactions EXCEPT ___
31. Area or sphere is refered as ___ A. burning of paper
A. Science C. Field B. potassium fluoride and calcium nitrate are mixed.
B. Consumer Products D. Composition C. sodium hydroxide is added to nitric acid
D. freezing of potassium nitrate solution.
32. What do you call the goods that are bought for consumption by
the average consumer? 46. The correct coefficients for the equation KClO 3 KCl + O2 are ____
A. Science C. Field A. 2, 2, 3 C. 3, 2, 2
B. Consumer Products D. Composition B. 2, 3, 2 D. 2, 1, 3

33. _____ is the amount that has to be paid to buy something. 47. Balancing a chemical equation involves ____
A. Cost C. Science A. adjusting the subscripts
B. Consumer products D. Composition B. adjusting both subscripts and coefficients
C. adjusting the coefficients
34. ____ refer to the body of knowledge. D. adjusting the masses of reactants and products
A. Cost C. Science
B. Consumer products D. Composition 48. What is the meaning of used in a chemical equation?
A. yields C. reacts with
35. ____ refers to the ingredients or constituents B. heat is applied D. gas
A. Cost C. Science
B. Consumer products D. Composition 49. The end or final materials in a chemical reaction is known as ___
A. reactants C. product
36. A heterogeneous mixture can be separated by all of the following B. quotient D. substance
methods EXCEPT ____
A. filtration C. distillation 50. In a chemical reaction, the mass of the products is _____
B. decantation D. mechanical separation A. less than the mass of the reactants.
B. greater than the mass of the reactants.
37. To get salt out of a solution, we could use ____ C. equal to the mass of the reactants.
A. filtration C. distillation D. undetermined
B. decantation D. mechanical separation

38. Mary wants to get the iron filings out of some fine sand, what
could be used to separate these two solids?
A. Magnet C. Sieve
B. Evaporation D. Decantation

39. Condensing means transforming from gas to _____

A. solid C. liquid
B. gas D. plasma

40. If I pour the water off after I boil the banana, this method is an
example of _____
A. filtration C. distillation
B. decantation D. mechanical separation

41. Uranium-235 has 92 protons. How may neutrons does it have?

A. 143 C. 235
B. 92 D. 90

42. What are isotopes?

A. Atoms that have the same number of neutrons but have
different
numbers of protons.
B. Atoms that have the same number of electrons but have
different