Lundkvist
Science 10
Name: __________________
Date: ____________Block:__
Organic Compounds Worksheet
Read pages 244-248 and answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.
1.
What does the term organic compound mean?
2. What does the term inorganic compound mean?
3. What are some exceptions to the organic classification?
4. What is organic chemistry?
5. How many electrons does carbon have in its valence shell?
6. Draw a Lewis diagram for carbon
7. List the elements that carbon usually bonds with.
8. Plastics are made up of what kinds of carbon compounds?
9. What kinds of structures can carbon compounds form because of its four bonds?
10. What are some ways that organic compounds are used today?
11. How do you recognize an organic compound?
12. What are some exceptions to the rule in question 11?
13. In the table below decide if the compound is organic or inorganic.
Compound
CH3CH2OH
CaCO3
PbBr3
C8H10N4O2
C4H10
CH3COOH
CO2
Al4C3
C3H8O
(NH4)2SO3
CH4
HCl
Organic

Inorganic
14. In the diagram above what do you notice about organic compounds?
Lundkvist
Science 10
Name: __________________
Date: ____________Block:__
15. What is a hydrocarbon?
16. What is a property of hydrocarbons?
17. What happens to hydrocarbons as the molecule becomes larger?
18. Draw the structural formula for ethane.
19. Draw the shortened structural formula for pentane.
20. What is an alcohol?
21. What is a solvent?
22. What is a property of alcohols?
23. If you look at the shortened structural formula of alcohols on table 5.9 p 248, what do all the
alcohol formulas end in?
24. Look on page 245 and decide if the diagrams below are molecular formula, structural formula,
ball-and-stick model or space-filling model.
C2H6O
A. ____________
B.___________
C. ____________
D. ___________
25. What type of organic compound do you think the molecules in question 24 represent?
26. What two elements are present in hydrocarbons?
27. What three elements are present in alcohols?
28. Name the specific compounds that are used in fuels for camp stoves and hand-held lighters.
29. Why are the compounds in question 28 useful for camp stoves and hand-held lighters?
30. What is an organic compound that you are particularly interested in?