Midterm Exam Study Guide
Chemistry, 2015
The midterm exam will include content from Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6 of your textbook. When studying,
you should review how the terms below relate to your tests and quizzes from each of these chapters.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Organic vs inorganic chemistry
Biochemistry
Physical vs analytical chemistry
Mixture vs. compound
Vapor vs. gas
Distillation vs. filtration
Mass
Homogenous vs heterogenous
Matter
Reactant vs. product
Chemical reaction
Phase
Element
Technology
Physical vs chemical change
Lavoisier vs. Flemming
Hypothesis vs theory
Importance of collaboration and communication in chemistry
Independent vs. dependent variables
Period vs. groups in the periodic table
Solids vs. liquids vs. gases
Law of Conservation of Mass
Extensive vs. intensive properties
Definition of a chemical property
Structure of an atomic nucleus
Contributions of the following people: Rutherford, Thomson, Dalton, Democritus, and Goldstein
Determining the number of neutrons
Isotopes
Atomic mass vs. atomic number
How to determine atomic number
Speed of light
# of electrons in each electron orbital (s, p, d)
Amplitude vs. frequency
Spectrum of visible light
Bohr’s model
Pauli exclusion principle
Aufbau’s digram
Protons, neutron, and electrons
Metals vs. nonmetals vs. metalloids
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Which groups alkali metals and alkaline earth metals belong to
Periodic Law
Representative elements
Noble gases
Atoms
Cations vs Anions
Ionization energy trends
Electronegativity trends
Nuclear energy trends
Mendeleev