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Chemistry Final Study Guide – Concepts (no math)
1.
What are the coefficients for the following reaction? ____ FeCl3 + ____ NaOH ____ Fe(OH)3 + ____NaCl
2. What are all the symbols (and their meanings) used to describe a chemical reaction? Ex: (g)
3. What is the mole ratio of oxygen to iron III oxide? 4 Fe + 3 O2 2 Fe2O3
4. What is the pressure and temperature for STP?
5. What is gas pressure? (How is it created?)
6. What is absolute zero?
7. What happens to the temperature of a substance going through a phase change that is heated? What is happening to the
energy?
8. What happens to the pressure of a gas:
a. Whose temperature decreases?
b. Volume increases?
9. What happens to the temperature of a gas:
a. Whose pressure decreases?
b. Volume decreases?
10. What happens to volume of a gas:
a. Whose pressure increases?
b. Temperature decreases?
11. Explain the kinetic molecular theory. (Esp. what kind of attraction do gases have?) Liquids? Solids?
12. List the properties of an acid.
List the properties of a base.
13. How can you make something dissolve faster? (factors affecting dissolving rates)
14. Define acid.
15. What is the pH scale and what is acidic, basic, neutral on it?
16. What characterizes a strong acid or base?
17. Given: HNO3 + OH- H2O + NO3- ; OH- is acting as Bronsted-Lowry acid or base?
18. A solution has an OH- concentration of 1x 10 -8, is this acidic or basic?
19. What is the term for the substance that gets dissolved in a solution? Substance that does the dissolving?
20. What occurs during dissolving?
21. What does “like dissolve like” mean? How do you tell if something is polar, nonpolar or ionic?
22. Given the following list: Sodium sulfate, carbon tetrachloride, magnesium hydroxide, water, sugar, rubbing
alcohol, CI4, RbI, KNO3, CO2
a. Which of the following substances is ionic?
b. Which will dissolve in water?
c. Which will dissolve in a nonpolar substance like carbon disulfide?
d. Which will be electrolytes?
23. Define Endothermic and Exothermic? Which could feel cold if you touched a flask in which one of these was
occurring?
24. How does heat flow?
25. If heat is released by a chemical system, what happens to the surroundings?
26. Define reaction rate.
27. What are the factors that increase reaction rate and HOW do they increase it?
28. What does a catalyst do?
29. Define equilibrium.
30. Given: CH3COOH + NaOH NaCH3CO2 + H2O assuming the reaction is at equilibrium if more sodium
hydroxide were added, what would happen……
a. Which way will equilibrium shift?
b. To sodium acetate, NaCH3CO2 concentration?
c. To acetic acid, CH3COOH concentration?
31. What is entropy and how does it promote/inhibit spontaneous reactions?
32. What factors affect entropy and how?
33. What do all spontaneous reactions release?
34. Know organic chemistry.