QUESTION BANK

CLASS XII (CHEMISTRY)

UNIT 8: CHEMICAL KINETICS

S.No. True –False Type questions

1 The order of a reaction can be in fraction but molecularity cannot be

2 Thermodynamics can help us to predict the rate of a reaction
3 The molecularity of a reaction can be zero
4 Half life of a zero order reaction is directly proportional to initial concentration of
reactants.
5 We can know order of a reaction if we know units of rate constant for that reaction.

6 Rate constant of a reaction depends on initial concentration of reactants

7 Changing the concentration of reactants will change the rate constant.

8 Order of a chemical reaction cannot be Negative.

9 Chemical reaction takes place as a result of collision between reactant molecules

10 Molecularity is the number of reactant molecules participating in the rate

determining step of a chemical reaction.
11 Catalysts always increase the rate of reaction.

12 The reaction with rate constant value 0 is not possible.

13 The order of reaction is always equal to the sum of the stoichiometric coefficients of
reactions in the balanced chemical equation for a reaction.

14 The order of reaction is the sum of the powers of the molar concentration of the
reactants in the rate law expression.

15 The rate of reaction is same at anytime during the reaction

16 The rate of a reaction is independent of temperature change.

17 The rate of a reaction decreases with passage of time as the concentration of reactant
decreases.

18 Catalyst is a substance that that does not change the equilibrium constant of the
reaction..

19 All first order reactions are unimolecular .

20 Disintegration follows first order kinetics.
21 For first order reaction, rate becomes double as the conc. of the reactant becomes
double.
22 Molecularity and order can be 0,1,2,3
23 The role of a catalyst is to change Gibbs energy of reaction.
24 The rate of a reaction decreases with passage of time as the concentration of reactants
decreases.
25 catalysts do not alter the mechanism of the reaction and never appear in the rate law
26 Changing the temperature does not change the activation energy for a reaction
27 At higher temperature a higher percentage of reactants have enough energy to get
over the transition state
28 The mechanism, rate law, and activation energy will all change when a catalyst is
added.
29 The general rate law for a reaction does not changes with temperature, but the rate
constant does change
30 Since catalysts are recycled, even a small amount of catalyst can accelerate a reaction
31 For a 1st order reaction, t1/2 is independent of initial concentration of the reacting
species.
32 All radioactive decay takes place by zero order kinetics.
33 [R] = [R]o e-kt is the integrated rate law for first order kinetics.
34 In 1st order reaction, unit of rate constant is same as the unit of time.
35 Plot of log[R]o/[R] vs time for a first order reaction, slope equals to –k.
36 The integrated rate equations are different for the reactions of different reaction
 orders.
37 Zero order reaction means that the rate of the reaction is proportional to zero power of
the concentration of products.
38 Unit of 1st order reaction and pseudo 1st order reaction is same.
39 When initial concentration of the reactant is doubled than the half-life period of zero
order reaction gets increased four times.
40 Zero order reactions proceed at uniform rate.
41 Hydrolysis of Ethyl acetate in an acidic solution is an example of first order reaction.
42 All natural and artificial radioactive decay is an example of zero order.
43 A first order reaction gets completed in infinite time.
44 Half life period is the time in which half of the reactant is consumed.
45 If the rate of a zero-order reaction is plotted as a function of time, the graph is a
straight line where (rate = k).
46 The rate of the reaction NO2 + CO → NO + CO2 can be written as a rate a
[NO2]1 [CO]1.

47 The reaction NO2 + CO → NO + CO2 takes place through one step.

48 If a reaction takes place through more than two steps, the rate of the reaction is
determined by the slowest step.

49 The rate constant of zero-order reactions has the unit mol L-1 s-1.

50 When the rate of the reaction is equal to the rate constant, the order of the reaction is
first order.

51 The half-life period of any first order reaction is independent of initial concentration.
52 On increasing temperature rate of reaction always increases.
53 Hydrolysis of ethyl acetate in presence of acid is a reaction of first order whereas in
presence of alkali, it is a reaction of second order.
54 Order of the reaction can never be fractional.
55 We cannot determine order from balanced chemical equation.
56 Half-life period for a first order reaction is independent of initial concentration of the
reactant.
57 All radioactive decay follows first order kinetics.
58 For a first order reaction, t99.9% = 2 t 90%

True-False

59 Rate determining step is fastest step.

60 For complex reaction, order is given by the slowest step and generally, molecularity
of the slowest step is same as the order of the overall reaction.
61 The sum of the power of concentrations of the reactants in rate law expression may be
0,1,2,3 and even fraction.
62 The number of reacting species taking part in an elementary reaction must collide
simultaneously in order to bring about a chemical reaction is called molecularity of
the reaction.
63 Artificial radioactive decay of unstable nuclei takes place by zero order kinetics.
64 The molecularity greater than three is observed.
65 Rate law for any reaction cannot be predicted by merely looking at the balanced
chemical equation i.e., theoretically but must be determined experimentally.
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Questions submitted by the PGTs (Chemistry) of KVs of Bhubaneswar, Guwahati,

Kolkata, Ranchi, Silchar and Tinsukia Region.

Vetted by: Silchar Region