STUDY GUIDE ISOTOPES & RADIOMETRIC DATING, ELECTRON BEHAVIOR &
COVALENT BONDS, IONIC BONDS, CHEMICAL REACTIONS TEST
1. What should I use to study?
a. Isotopes and radiometric dating notes
b. Electron behavior and covalent bonding notes
c. Ionic bonding notes
d. Chemical reactions notes
e. You can also review the videos on these four topics
f. Review isotope & radiometric dating activity
g. Review electron behavior & covalent bond activity
h. Review ionic bond activity
i. Review chemical reaction activity
j. Worksheets
k. Review “Do now’s”
2. What should I study?
a. Isotopes and radiometric dating
-What are isotopes?
-How are they beneficial? Harmful?
-What is half-life?
-Calculating half-life and age of fossils or rocks
-How do living cells respond to radioactive isotopes?
b. Electron behavior and covalent bonds
-Define covalent bonds
-Nonpolar vs. polar
-Electronegativity
-Single, double, triple covalent bonds
-What determines if atoms are unstable and participate in bonding?
-Valence shell, valence electrons, full or not full
-What atoms make up 96% of living things?
c. Ionic bonds
-Definition
-Why not considered strong in biology?
-Ions and number of electrons and charges
d. Chemical reactions
-Definition
-Product and reactants
-What information is obtained from chemical reaction?
-How is energy involved in chemical reactions?
-Basic cell respiration & photosynthesis in terms of types of chemical
reactions and energy
-Importance of chemical reactions to cells
-Law of conservation
-What happens to atoms & energy during chemical reactions?
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-What speeds up chemical reactions within a cell and outside a cell in a test
tube?
3. Test format
a. 49 questions, each question-Total worth 100 points.
b. Thirty-nine multiple choice-2 points each
c. Four “True or False” 2 points each
d. Six fill in table 2 points each
4. Kinds of questions
a. Recall-if given a definition can you provide the word or vise-versa?
b. Identify-If given an example could you identify term
c. Synthesis-Bring information together to come up with answer
5.Question breakdown
a. Isotopes and radiometric dating-7 questions
b. Electron behavior and covalent bonding-14 questions
c. Ionic bonding-8 questions
d. Chemical reactions-12 questions
e. Combination or overlapping questions-8 questions
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