Reactions Study Guide
1. What are the 5 types of chemical reactions and give an example of each?
a. remember the unique definition that I gave you for combustion….
2. Can you balance chemical equations?
3. Can you assign oxidation numbers for compounds and realize when oxidations numbers have
changed. (oxidation and reduction)
4. Combine all of the following compounds in every possible way and see what visible results you will
get. KBr, Pb(NO3)2, Na2CO3, HNO3, NH4Cl
5. What happens when you get carbonic acid as a product?
6. What happens when a strong acid combines with a strong base? What is the net ionic equation for
these reactions?
7. Can you pick a soluble compound from a group of compounds?
8. Can you pick an insoluble compound from a group of compounds?
9. A compound called a salt is just a metal paired with a nonmetal.
10. Write the net ionic equation for ammonium nitrate and sodium hydroxide.
11. Write a balanced equation for when chlorine gas is reacted with magnesium bromide.
12. What happens when a metal carbonate is heat?
13. How can you separate ions in solution from the rest of the ions in the solution?
14. What is the little trick to help you balance reactions that are the combustion of a hydrocarbon?
15. Can you determine a compound that is least soluble or most soluble?
16. Write the net ionic equation for when magnesium is placed in hydrochloric acid.
17. Write the net ionic equation for silver nitrate and calcium chloride.
18. Write the balanced equation for lithium carbonate reacting with hydrochloric acid.
19. Write the balanced equation for the synthesis of sodium chloride.
20. Write the balanced equation for the decomposition of water.
21. Write the balanced chemical equation for the reaction between sodium phosphate and calcium
sulfate.
22. Write the balanced equation for the combustion of methane.
23. Write the balanced equation for the decomposition of potassium chlorate.
24. You need to remember how to find the missing piece of a nuclear reaction.
25. You need to remember the nuclear symbol for these items: beta particle, electron, alpha particle,
neutron, proton, and positron
26. Write the net ionic equation for iron(III) chloride and potassium chloride.
27. Write the net ionic equation for sodium carbonate and sulfuric acid.
28. Write the net ionic equation for calcium carbonate and nitric acid.
29. Write the net ionic equation for hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.
30. Write the net ionic equation for lead(II) nitrate and copper(II) chloride.
31. Write the balanced equation for magnesium and hydrochloric acid
32. Write the balanced equation for sulfuric acid and calcium carbonate.
33. Write the balanced equation for calcium oxide and water
34. Write the balanced equation for hydrobromic acid and potassium hydroxide
35. Write the balanced equation for the combustion of ethanol.
36. Write the net ionic equation for lead(II) nitrate and potassium iodide.
37. Write the balanced equation for sodium carbonate and nitric acid.