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AQA Chemistry Unit 5.7 Organic Chemistry - Foundation

a d g
What is crude oil made up of? Describe the process of fractional distillation. Use the diagram How does the length of the hydrocarbon affect the viscosity?
 and keywords to help. Choose one answer.
Gas
20oC
List four alkanes. a. more viscous
150oC
m ,e ,p ,b b. less viscous
Gasoline
(Petrol)
c. stays the same
200oC
Draw the following alkanes:
C2H6 C4H10 Kerosene h
Cracking is the breaking down of large chain
300 C
o

into shorter chains.

Diesel Oil It produces that have a double .
Crude Oil 370 C
o

Fuel Oil Draw a diagram of an alkene.

400oC
Lubricating Oil,
Furnace Paraffin Wax,
Asphalt
What is the formula for alkanes?
 Keywords: mixture, hydrocarbons, evaporated, fractionating
column, condense

b
Describe how crude oil is made. What is the formula for alkenes?

Keywords: fossil fuel, rock, long time, plankton 




 i
 What are the two methods of cracking? Describe how both
methods are done.
 e
How does the length of the hydrocarbon affect the boiling 1. S
What are the uses of crude oil? point?

The longer the hydrocarbon the higher/lower the boiling point.

Fuel for t e.g. p and d . Delete the wrong answer.

Used to make other compounds such as p ,l ,
s ,d .
f 2. C
What is bromine water a test for? Choose the correct answer.
c 
Complete the combustion equation.
a. alkane 
hydrocarbon + oxygen b. alkene

Complete the balanced symbol equation.
What colour does it go?
CH4 + O2 CO2 + H2O 

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AQA Chemistry Unit 5.7 Organic Chemistry - Foundation Answers

a d g
What is crude oil made up of? Describe the process of fractional distillation. Use the diagram How does the length of the hydrocarbon affect the viscosity?
Different length hydrocarbons. and keywords to help. Choose one answer.
Gas
20oC
List four alkanes. a. more viscous
150oC
methane, ethane, propane, butane b. less viscous
Gasoline
(Petrol)
c. stays the same
200oC
Draw the following alkanes:
C2H6 C4H10 Kerosene h
Cracking is the breaking down of large chain hydrocarbons
300 C
o

into shorter chains.

Diesel Oil It produces alkenes that have a double bond.
Crude Oil 370 C
o

Fuel Oil Draw a diagram of an alkene.

400oC
Lubricating Oil,
Furnace Paraffin Wax,
Asphalt
What is the formula for alkanes?
Cn + H2n + 2 Keywords: mixture, hydrocarbons, evaporated, fractionating
column, condense
Crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons and they are heated until
b
Describe how crude oil is made. they form a gas.
What is the formula for alkenes?
Keywords: fossil fuel, rock, long time, plankton They all have different boiling points so separate out at different
CnH2n
From the remains of dead plankton and other animals and temperatures.
plants buried in sand and mud over long periods of time. Long chain hydrocarbons have high boiling points, short chain
molecules have low boiling points. i
What are the two methods of cracking? Describe how both
What are the uses of crude oil? methods are done.
e Steam – heated into a vapour, mixed with steam, heated at very
Fuel for transport e.g. petrol and diesel. How does the length of the hydrocarbon affect the boiling
Used to make other compounds such as polymers, lubricants, point? high temperature.
solvents, detergents. The longer the hydrocarbon the higher/lower the boiling point.
Catalytic – heated into a gas, passed over aluminium oxide
Delete the wrong answer. catalyst, molecules split.

f
What is bromine water a test for? Choose the correct answer.
c
Complete the combustion equation.
a. alkane
hydrocarbon + oxygen carbon dioxide + water b. alkene
Complete the balanced symbol equation.
What colour does it go?
CH4 + 2O2 CO2 + 2H2O
colourless

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