GEAS – CHEMISTRY • Who discovered the proton?

o Ernest Rutherford

• Which of the following best describes a

scientific law? • Who discovered the neutron?
o It summarizes observed facts. o James Chadwick

• What are found in the nucleus of the atom? • What is anything that occupies space and has
o Protons and Neutrons mass?
o Matter

• What is the negatively charged particle of an

atom? • All forms of matter are composed of the same
o Electrons building blocks called ______.
o Atom

• What is the positively charged particle of an

atom? • What element has the smallest atom?
o Protons o Hydrogen

• What is the particle of an atom that has no • Hydrogen exists in three isotropic forms of
electrical charge? which Tritium is one of them. How many
o Neutron neutron does Tritium have?
o 2

• The word “atom” comes from the Greek word

“Atomos” which means what? • How are substances classified?
o Extremely Small o Elements and Compounds

• Who is regarded as the father of modern • Which of the following is NOT a characteristic
chemistry? of non-metals?
o Antoine Lavoisier o Non-metals form positive ions.

• Who was the first person to propose that atoms • Which element is the only non-metal that is in
have weights? the liquid state at room temperature?
o John Dalton o Bromine

• Which of the following best describes a • What is the substance that cannot be broken
“Dalton”? down into simpler substances?
o It is a unit of molecular mass. o Element

• Who discovered the electron? • What is the result from the combination, in
o Joseph John Thompson definite proportion of mass, of two or more
elements?
 o Compound o Solid, Liquid and Gas

• How are mixtures classified? • Which of the following statements is TRUE?

o Suspension, Colloids or Solutions o All gases have approximately the
same coefficient of expansion.

• Which of the following is a form of mixture?

• Compounds are mostly defined as:
o Brass
o Acids and Bases

• The mixture of soil and water is an example of

what classification of a mixture? • What is the property of metals that allow them
to be rolled without breaking?
o Suspension
o Malleability

• Honey is a mixture of ________.

• What is the property of metals that reflect the
o Fructose and Glucose
light that strikes their surfaces, making them
appear shiny?
• A very fine particle of soil when mixed to water o Luster
will form a cloudy mixture. How is this mixture
classified?
• Which of the following is NOT a property of
o Colloid
metals?
o Metals are neither malleable nor
• The particles of sugar dispersed in water are so ductile.
small that a clear homogeneous mixture results.
What is this homogeneous mixture called?
• What refers to the property of matter which
o Solution
states that “two objects cannot occupy the same
place at the same time”?
• What refers to a very common colloidal o Impenetrability
substance that contains collagen and comes from
the born of animals?
• What elements that have properties intermediate
o Gelatin
between metals and non-metals?
• What element is used to build DNA molecules? o Metalloids
o Zinc

• Which of the following is NOT a property of

• How are elements classified? acids?
o Metals, Non-metals or Metalloids o Feel slippery on the skin.

• Approximately what percentage of the elements • Which of the following is NOT a property of
in the periodic table are metals? bases?
o 80% o Dissolve metals producing various
salts and hydrogen gas.

• What are the three states of matter?

• An acid can react with the base to produce a
____________.
o Salt
• Hydrogen will act as an oxidizing agent when it
is made to react to what element?
o Calcium
• Vinegar is a solution of what water and what
acid?
o Acetic Acid
• What acid is added to carbonated drinks to
produce a tart test?
o Phosphoric Acid
• What type of acid is used in softdrinks?
o Phosphoric acid
• Table salt may be formed by the reaction of:
o Hydrochloric acid and sodium
hydroxide
• What is the composition of common table salt?
o Sodium Chloride
• What occurs when a substance is transformed
into another substance with a totally different
composition and properties?
o Chemical Change
• What occurs when a substance changes its
appearance without changing its composition?
o Physical Change
• What is another term for “chemical change”?
o Chemical reaction
• What describes the number of homogeneous
material in a sample?
o Phase
• A material is said to be _______ if its
composition and properties are uniform
throughout.
o Homogeneous
• A material is said to be _______ if its
composition and properties are not uniform
throughout.
o Heterogeneous
• The properties of material that changes when the
amount of substance changes are called
___________ properties.
o Extensive
• The properties of material that do not change
when the amount of substance changes are
called ___________ properties.
o Intensive
• Which of the following is NOT an intensive
property of a material?
o Surface Area
• Which of the following is NOT an extensive
property of a material?
o Density
• “When two or more elements form more than
one compound, the ratio of the masses of one
element that combine with a given mass of
another element in the different compounds is a
ratio of a small whole numbers.”
o Law of multiple proportion
• “The masses of elements in a pure compound
are always in the same proportion.” This
statement is known as:
o Law of definite proportion
• Who formulated the atomic theory?
o John Dalton
 o 5.485799 x 10 -4
• Who revised the atomic theory by replacing the
hard, indestructible spheres imagined by Dalton
• What is the mass of electron at rest in MeV?
and proposed the “raisin bread model” of the
atom? o 0.51
o Joseph John Thompson
• The size of an electron is very small. It is
believed to have a diameter of about how many
• How does Joseph John Thompson call his model
Angstrom?
of the atom?
o 0.0001
o Plum-pudding model

• What is the mass of proton in gram?

• The discovery of radioactivity further confirms
the existence of the subatomic particles. Who o 5.929709 x 10 -24
discovered radioactivity?
o Henri Becquerel
• What is the mass of proton in amu?
o 1.0072765
• What is the common unit used to indicate the
mass of a particle?
o Atomic mass unit (amu) • What is the mass of neutron in gram?
o 1.67495 x 10 -24

• What is a unit charge of a particle?

o Charge unit • What is the mass of neutron in amu?
o 1.00866

• What is the charge of electron in coulombs?

o -1.60217733 x 10 -19 • The proton and neutron are not considered as
fundamental particles because they consist of
smaller particles called ___________.
• What is the charge of electron in charge unit? o Quarks
o 1–
• The atomic number of an element is:
• What is the charge of proton in coulombs? o The number of protons in a nucleus.
-19
o 1.60217733 x 10
• Atoms of the same element which have different
masses are called:
o Isotopes
• What is the charge of electron in charge unit?
o 1+
• Nuclei of isotopes differ from one another only
in ___________.
• What is the mass of electron in gram?
o The number of neutrons
o 9.109387 x 10 -26

• Two isotopes of the same element contain the

• What is the mass of electron in amu? same number of __________.
 o Protons and electrons but different
number of neutrons
• What is an atom of a specific isotope called?
o Ion
• The number of _________ in an atom defines
what element the atom is.
o Protons
• The number of _________ in an atom defines
the isotopes of an element.
o Neutrons
• If electrons are removed from or added to a
neutral atom, a charged particle of the same
element, called _________ is formed.
o Ion
• A negatively charged ion which results when an
electron is added to an atom is called ________.
o Anion
• A positively charged ion which results when an
electron is removed from an atom is called ____.
o Cation
• What is the “identity number” of an atom?
o Atomic number
• The _________ of an atom is the sum of the
number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus
of an atom.
o Mass number
• A certain element has an atomic number and
mass number of 16 and 40, respectively. The
number of protons, electrons and neutrons
present in a single ionized atom of this element
are_________, _________ and __________.
o 16, 16, 24
• “When the elements are arranged in the order of
increasing atomic number, elements with similar
properties appear at periodic intervals”. This
statement is known as __________.
o The periodic law
• Who are the two chemists credited for the
discovery of the periodic law?
o Julius Lothar Meyer and Dimitri
Ivanovich Mendeleev
• The elements with similar properties are placed
in columns of the periodic table. These columns
are commonly called ___________.
o Group or families
• What are the rows in the periodic table called?
o Periods
• The elements in the groups in the periodic table
are called _________.
o Cogeners
• Elements in Group IA in the periodic table are
_________.
o Alkali metals
• Elements in Group IIA in the periodic table are
_________.
o Alkaline earth metals
• The boron group is what group in the periodic
table?
o Group IIIA
• What group in the periodic table is the carbon
group?
o Group IVA
• What group in the periodic table is the nitrogen
group?
 o Group VA • Which of the following carbon atoms is the most
abundant on Earth?
o Carbon-12
• The chalcogens are elements in what group in
the periodic table?
o Group VIA • Which alkaline earth metal has the smallest
atomic number?
o Beryllium
• Halogens belong to what group in the periodic
table?
o Group VIIA • Which noble gas has the smallest atomic
number?
o Helium
• The elements, germanium and silicon, which are
commonly used for semiconductors belongs to
what group of elements?
• What is the most abundant element in terms of
o Carbon group the number of atoms?
o Oxygen
• What group in the periodic table are the noble
gases?
• What are the two most abundant elements in
o Group 0 or VIIIA terms of the number of atoms?
o Oxygen and silicon
• The first period in the periodic table contains
how many elements?
• Which of the following elements is the most
o Two abundant?
o Aluminum
• Which of the following is NOT a noble gas?
o Antimony • Silicon makes up over _ of the earth’s elements.
o 25%
• Which is another term for noble gases?
o Inert gases • Phosphorous makes up about what percent of
the earth’s resources.
o 3%
• What is the atomic number of oxygen?
o 8
• What is the most abundant element in the human
body?
o Oxygen
• What is the atomic number of germanium?
o 32
• The human body is composed of how many
percent oxygen?
• What is the atomic number of carbon? o 65%
o 6
• What is the second most abundant element in the
human body?
 o Carbon
• What element is used as electric power source
for peacemakers and artificial hearts?
• To form an ammonia, nitrogen must be made to
react with what element? o Promethium
o Hydrogen
• What element is commonly used in making
lasers?
• Which of the following is NOT metalloid?
o Neodymium
o Magnesium

• What is regarded as the most unique element in

• Caustic soda is used in making soap, textiles and
the periodic table?
paper. What is another?
o Carbon
o Sodium Hydroxide

• What is the most abundant element in the

• What is used in the manufacture of explosives
atmosphere?
and fireworks?
o Nitrogen
o Potassium perchlorate

• What is the approximate percentage of nitrogen

• All alkaline metals will tarnish in air except __.
in air by volume?
o Beryllium
o 70%

• What alkali metal is usually used for x-ray

apparatus because of its ability to allow x-rays to
pass through with minimum absorption? • What is the only gas in Group VIA in the
periodic table?
o Beryllium
o Oxygen

• A chemical reaction between metal and non-

metal usually forms ionic compounds. Which of • What is the second most abundant element in the
the following is not an ionic compound? atmosphere?
o C6H12O6 o Oxygen

• What element is used as a coating for iron to • What element is used in advertising signs?
make galvanized iron a corrosion-resistant o Neon
material?
o Zinc
• What principle states about the fundamental
limitation that, for a particle as small as the
• The combination of iron and zinc produces what electron, one cannot know exactly where it is
kind of metal? and at the same time know its energy or how it
is moving?
o Galvanized metal
o Uncertainty principle

• What is the color of zinc?

• Who discovered the uncertainty principle?
o Bluish-white
 o Werner Karl Heisenberg o Valence shells

• What principle states that the electron fill the • In an atom, ___ are electrons that are contained
orbitals, one at a time, starting with the lowest within the filled inner shells.
energy orbital then proceeding to the one with
o Core electrons
higher energy?
o Aufbau principle
• Which of the following elements react by losing
one electron?
• What principle states that no two electrons in the
o Alkali metals
same atom can have the same set of four
quantum numbers?
o Paul Exclusion Principle • The elements of groups IA, IIA, IIIA, IVA, VA,
VIA, VIIA and VIIIA are called main group
elements or _________.
• What describes how the electrons and
o Representatives
distributed among the orbitals?
o Electron configuration of an atom
• Group A elements in the periodic table are
known as _________ elements.
• What of the following would be different in a
o Representative
ground state and an excited state of neon atom?
o The electronic configuration
• What is another term for lanthanides and
actinides?
• What refers to the spatial arrangement of the
o Inner transition metal
groups attached to chiral carbon atom?
o Absolute configuration
• What refers to the elements found at the center
of the new periodic table?
• The ______ of the atom describes the atom as
o Heavy metals
having a nucleus at the center around which
electrons move?
o Quantum mechanical model • For the representative elements, the number of
valence electrons is the same as the _______.
o The rightmost digit of the group
• Who produced the mathematical theory of wave
number of the element
mechanics where the solutions to his equations
involve assigning integers to the different
parameters (quantum numbers) to describe the
arrangement of electrons in the atoms? • For transition elements, the number of valence
electrons is the same as _________.
o Edwin Schrodinger
o The group number

• The spin quantum number is what quantum

number? • The size of the atom is dependent on which of
the following:
o Fourth quantum number
o The region of space occupied by its
electrons
• What are the main energy levels where the
valence electrons belong called?
• What happens to the atomic size of the elements
in a group when you go from top to bottom of
the group?
o It increases
• Who first predicted the Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) in 1984?
o Albert Einstein
• The ionization energy is _____ to the atomic
size of atom.
o Inversely proportional
• What refers to the measure of the atom’s
tendency to attract an additional electron?
o Electron affinity
• The process of gaining or losing an electron
results in the formation of a charged atom or
molecule called _________.
o Ion
• Aside from liquid, gas and solid, there are two
other states of matter. What are they?
o Plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate
• Who first identified the plasma in 1879?
o William Crookes
• Who coined the term “plasma” in 1928?
o Irving Langmuir
• What is made of gas atoms that have been
cooled to near absolute zero at which
temperature the atoms slow down, combine and
forms a single entity known called superatom?
o Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
• The fifth stage of matter, the BEC (Bose-
Einstein condensate) was first created in what
year?
o 1995
• What is a high-energy, electrically charged gas
produced by hearing the gas until the electrons
in the outer orbitals of the atoms separate,
leaving the atoms with a positive charge?
o Plasma
• Water has the biggest density when it is in what
state?
o Liquid
• What is the temperature of water in solid state at
1 atm?
o 0˚C
• The density of water is the largest at what
temperature?
o 4˚C
• Which of the following elements has the highest
density?
o Gold
• Which of the following elements has the highest
density?
o Aluminum
• In purifying water, offensive odor and taste are
removed through which process?
o Aeration
• The procedure for separating a liquid from a
mixture by vaporizing the liquid and condensing
the vapor called ________.
o Distillation
• The process in which atmosphere water vapor
condenses on highly soluble solid and the solid
dissolves in the water to produce an aqueous
solution is called _________.
o Deliquescence
• The process, similar to osmosis, in which ions or
molecules in solution pass through a
semipermeable membrane but colloidal particles
do not is called ___________.
o Dialysis
• What is an elementary process involving the
collision of two molecules?
o Bimolecular process
• What element has a very high melting point and
ideal for filament of light bulbs?
o Tungsten
• Metals can be drawn into wires. This illustrates
what property of metals?
o Ductility
• Steel is the widely used construction material
because of its high tension strength. It is a
combination of what elements?
o Iron and carbon
• What refers to the electrostatic attraction that
holds together the oppositely charged ions, the
cations and anions, in the solid compound?
o Ionic Bond
• What states that atoms tend to gain, lose or share
electrons until they surrounded by eight valence
electrons?
o Octet rule
• What indicates the number of valence electrons
in the atom represented by dots scattered on four
sides of the atomic symbol?
o Electron dot structure or Lewis
structure
• What is formed by the sharing of electrons
between atoms?
o Covalent bond
• What is the distance between the nuclei of two
bonded atoms called?
o Bond length
• Which of the following elements has the
smallest atomic radius?
o Chlorine
• What is the radius of a spherical ion called?
o Ionic radius
• Which of the following elements has an ionic
radius that is larger than its atomic radius?
o Chlorine
• The overall shape of a molecule is described by
which two properties?
o Bond distance and bond angle
• What is an angle made by the lines joining the
nuclei of the atoms in the molecule?
o Bond angle
• A pair of electrons involved in covalent bond
formation is called _______.
o Bond pair
• _________ is one-half the difference between
the number of electrons in bonding and in
antibonding molecular orbitals in the covalent
bond.
o Bond order
• What is the quantity of energy required to break
one mole of covalent bonds in a gaseous
species?
o Bond dissociation energy
• Bond dissociation energy is usually expressed in
_______.
o kJ/mole
• “The best arrangement of a given number of
shared and unshared electrons is the one that
minimizes the repulsion among them.” This is
known as ________.
o Valence-shell electron-pair repulsion
theory
• “A covalent bond is formed by the overlap of
atomic orbitals.” This statement is the basic idea
of which theory?
o Valence bond theory
• What refers to a simple model to account for
molecular geometry, which is based on simple
repulsion of electron pairs?
o Valence shell electron pair repulsion
theory
• What theory provides a quantum-mechanical
description of molecular bonding which focuses
attention on the bond formation?
o Valence bond theory
• What refers to the ability of an atom in a
molecule to attract shared electrons?
o Electronegativity
• Electronegativity is the ability of an atom in a
compound to attract an electron towards itself. It
is a measure on arbitrary scale of ________.
o 0–4
• What type of bond occurs when the difference in
electronegativity is greater than or equal to 2?
o Ionic
• Nonpolar covalent bond occurs if the difference
is electronegativity ranges from:
o 0.50 to 1.90
• When can we say that a molecule is polar?
o When the centers of positive and
negative and negative charge do not
coincide
• What is the sum of masses of the atoms in the
molecule of the substance called?
o Molecular mass
• What refers to the number of atoms in exactly
12 grams of carbon-12?
o Avogadro’s number
• Which one is the Avogadro’s number?
o 6.02 x 1023
• What is defined as the amount of substance that
contains 6.02 x 1023 particles of that substance?
o Mole
• “The volume of gas is proportional to the
amount of substance in moles at constant
pressure and temperature.” This statement is
known as _________.
o Avogadro’s principle
• What refers to the mass in grams of one mole of
substance?
o Molar mass
• What is the unit of molar mass?
o Grams per mole
• “The total pressure of a mixture of gases equals
the sum of the partial pressures of each of the
gases in the mixture.” This statement is known
as _________.
o Dalton’s law of partial pressure

• What law states that “the total volume of a
mixture of non-reacting gases is equal to the
sum of the partial volumes.”?
o Azamat’s law
• The dry air is composed of how many percent
nitrogen?
o 78.1%
• The dry air is composed of how many percent
oxygen?
o 20.9%
• How much carbon dioxide is present in dry air?
o 0.03%
• What is the mixing of gases due to molecular
motion called?
o Diffusion
• What refers to the passage of molecules of a gas
from one container to another through a tiny
opening between the containers?
o Effusion
• What refers to the process of spreading out
spontaneously to occupy a space uniformly?
o Diffusion
• The rate of effusion of a gas is inversely
proportional to the square root of its molar mass.
Who discovered this?
o Thomas Graham
• What law states that the rate of effusion of a gas,
which is the amount gas that moves through the
hole in a given amount of time, is inversely
proportional to the square root of its molar
mass?
o Graham’s law of effusion
• What is a poisonous gas generated mostly by
motor vehicles?
o Carbon monoxide
• What is considered as one of the pollutants
responsible for smog and acid rain?
o Nitrogen dioxide
• What refers to the forces of attraction that exist
between molecules in a compound?
o Intermolecular forces
• All are basic types of van del Waals forces
except one. Which one?
o Heat bonding
• What forces hold molecules together in crystals?
o Van der waals forces
• The three types of intermolecular forces exist in
neutral molecules are collectively known as van
der Waals forces. This is named after ________.
o Diderik van der Waals
• A dipole has how many electrically charged
pole(s)?
o 2
• Compounds containing hydrogen and other
element are known as _________.
o Hydrides
• What is a special kind of dipole-dipole
interaction formed when a hydrogen atom
bonded to a highly electronegative atom is
attracted to the lone pair of a nearby
electronegative atom?
o Hydrogen bond
• What is the process of changing from gas state
to liquid state?
o Condensation
• What is the process of changing from the liquid • What refers to the amount of heat required by
state to solid state? one mole of a substance to change from gas to
liquid?
o Freezing
o Molar of fusion

• Liquid that vaporizes easily are called _______

liquids.
• What is the process of changing from liquid
o Volatile
state to gas state?
o Vaporization
• What refers to the temperature above which a
gas cannot be liquefied by an increase in
• What is the process of changing from solid state pressure?
to gas scale?
o Critical temperature
o Sublimation

• What is a homogeneous mixture made of

• What is the process of changing from gas state particles that exist as individual molecules or
to solid state? ions?
o Deposition o Solution

• What is the process of changing from solid state • What is the component of the solution that is
to liquid state? dissolved?
o Melting o Solute

• Sublimation is the kinetic molecular theory of • What is the component of the solution in which
water defined as the direct transfer from ____ the solute is dissolved?
state to ______ state.
o Solvent
o Solid, gaseous

• What refers to the amount of heat absorbed by

one mole of substance to change from solid to
liquid?
o Molar heat of fusion

• What refers to the amount of heat released by

one mole of a substance when it changes from
liquid to solid?
o Molar heat of solidification

• What refers to the amount of heat required by

one mole of a substance to change from liquid to
gas?
o Molar heat of vaporization
 o 5

• How many basic units are those in the

International System of Units?
o 7

• What prefix is equivalent to 10 to the power of

-24?
o Yocto

• What prefix is equivalent to 10 to the power of

21?
o Zetta

• The prefix “exa” is equivalent to 10 to the power

______.
o 18

• What is the standard unit of mass?

o Kilogram

• The International Standards of mass equal to 1

kg to 1000 grams, refers to a cylinders of what
elements?
o Platinum-Iridium

• The second is define as 9,192, 631, 770 times

the period of vibration of radiation from what
atom?
o Cesium

• What is defined as the distance the light travels

in a vacuum in 1/ 299, 792, 458 second?
o Meter

• What is the SI unit of work?

o Joule
GEAS – PHYSICS

• What is the SI unit of power?

• The number 175.00 how many significant o Watt
figures?
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