Chemistry
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- Chemistry
- Rocks, ores, metals and alloysElectrolysisTesting and analysing substancesExtracting metals /The reactivity seriesCrude oil, cracking and hydrocarbonsPolymers
- GCSE
- Edexcel
- Created by: Natasha Granville
- Created on: 25-04-16 18:46
What kind of rock are chalk and limestone examples of: sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic
sedimentary
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If magma cooled quickly to form igneous rock, what size will the crystals be; small or large?
small
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Give an example of a metamorphic rock
marble
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Marble, chalk and limestone are natural forms of what?
calcium carbonate
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Glass is made by heating limestone with sand and what else?
sodium carbonate
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If calcium carbonate is heated, carbon dioxide and what else are formed?
calcium oxide
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If water is added to calcium oxide, what is formed?
calcium hydroxide
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Name the process that uses electrical energy to decompose compounds
electrolysis
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To test for chlorine, dip damp blue litmus paper into the substance. Chlorine will turn the paper red (becasue it is acidic) then what colour?
white
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More reactive metals must be extracted from their ores by what process?
electrolysis
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Less reactive metals can be extracted from their ores by being heated with what other element?
carbon
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What word describes a gain of oxygen?
oxidation
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What word describes a loss of oxygen
reduction
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Name a property of steel that makes it useful for building bridges
strong
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The low density of aluminium makes it useful for building what?
aircrafts
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What word describes a mixture of metals
alloy
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What is the "smart material" that is an alloy of nickel and titanium called?
nitinol
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What gas did the earth's early atmosphere mainly contain?
carbon dioxide
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Our current atmosphere contains 78% of what gas?
nitrogen
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In the earth's early atmosphere, water vapour condensed to form oceans, what gas dissolved in these oceans?
carbon dioxide
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What process released oxygen, forming our atmosphere today?
photosynthesis
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Crude oil is a mixtue of what?
hydrocarbons
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What crude oil fraction is below naptha in the fractional distillation tower
kerosene
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Are crude oil fractions with shorter or longer hydrocarbon chains difficult to ignite?
longer
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What crude oil fraction is used for surfacing roads
bitumen
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Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon forms carbon dioxide and what other substance?
water
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I am a gas. I am a product of incomplete combustion, I am colourless, odourless, toxic and can reduce the oxygen carrying ability of red blood cells. What am I?
carbon monoxide
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What gas dissolves in rainwater to form acid rain?
sulfur dioxide
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Carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour are examples of what?
greenhouse gases
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Name the following process that reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the air: iron is added to oceans, plants grow and photosynthesise, sea creatures eat plants then die and sink to ocean floor, their carbonate shells are buried.
iron seeding
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What term is used to describe a process that does not add carbon to the atmosphere because amount released is equal to amount removed?
carbon neutral
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I am a type of fuel. I am a mostly carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuels, I am obtained from living or recently dead organisms. What type of fuel am I?
biofuel
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I am a fuel. I produce lots of energy and I am described as a clean fuel because water is my only waste product. What am I?
hydrogen
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Does an alkane or an alkene have the formula CnH2n+2
alkane
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Alkenes turn bromine water what colour?
colourless
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What word describes the breaking up of long hydrocarbon chains into smaller, more useful ones/
cracking
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What word describes a substance that speeds up a reaction?
catalyst
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What word describes a small molecule used to make a polymer?
monomer
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What are manufactured polymers called?
plastics
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Most polymers persist in landfill sites because they are not...
biodegradable
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
If magma cooled quickly to form igneous rock, what size will the crystals be; small or large?
Back
small
Card 3
Front
Give an example of a metamorphic rock
Back
Card 4
Front
Marble, chalk and limestone are natural forms of what?
Back
Card 5
Front
Glass is made by heating limestone with sand and what else?
Back
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