Chemistry Final Review Flashcards
What are the six steps of the scientific method?
Question, Background research, hypothesis, Test/Experiment, Analyze data and conclude, communicate results
In an experiment what is the independent variable?
Variable that stands alone and isn’t changed by other variables you are trying to measure.
What is a dependent variable?
What you measure in an experiment what is affected
What is the control variables?
Held constant variable, kept the same
Why do scientists only vary one variable in an experiment?
Ensures that the experimental outcomes is clearly due to one identifiable factor.
You want to test whether playing music in front of plants will affect their overall growth. You play constant music in front of plant 1 for a month and no music in front of plant b for a month. What would be a hypothesis for the experiment?
What is the independent, dependent, and control variables?
If at the end of a month both plants are the same height. What would be a conclusion for the experiment?
Hypothesis: If I play music in front of plants they will grow.
Independent: Music being played in front of plants
Dependent: growth of plants
Control: Type of plant/ light exposure
Conclusion: Playing music in front of these plants significantly causes growth
What is the measurement system all scientists use and why? What are examples of these?
SI Units because it’s easier to compare and set up on a loose 10.
Examples: Length - meter (m)
Time - second (s)
Amount of substance - mole (mol)
Temperature - kelvin (K)
Luminous intensity - candela (cd)
Mass - kilogram (kg)
What is the definition for accuracy and precision? What would be an example for each?
Accuracy: how close to a desired valve you are
Ex: if a micrometer is used to measure a 15 mm standard gauge block, and it produces a 15 mm reading, it is considered accurate
Precision: how close the results are
Ex:if you weigh a given substance five times, and get 3.2 kg each time, then your measurement is very precise.
How many sig figs are within 0.002030?
4
Round 306732 to 3 sig figs?
30700
What is 3.04x10^-4?
30400.0
What is 2690000?
2.69x10^-6
Give the answer in the correct number of sig figs?
1824> round to 1800
What is the definition of an element?
Cannot be simplified into any other substance
What is a compound?
Two or more atoms chemically bonded it definite proportions. Ex: H20, Nacl
What is a mixture?
Combo of 2 or more substances where substances maintain their properties
What are the four states of matter and describe each according to the space between particles and particle movement?
Solid, Gas, Liquid, Plasma
What is a solid?
Has definite volume and definite shape
Inter-molecular forces are strong.
What is a gas?
No definite volume and shape- weak inter-molecular forces
What is a liquid?
definite volume but no definite shape
What is a plasma?
Happens at high temps- has free floating electrons and nuclei allowing electricity to follow ex: lightning
What is the kinetic molecular theory? How are the particles of a liquid affected when it absorbs energy? When it release energy?
Explains states of matter, and is based on the idea that matter is composed of tiny particles that are always in motion. Liquid when energy is absorbed goes to a gas. When it releases it goes to a solid.