Unit 1 - Chapter 2: Chemical Bonding

Question 1

What rule of thumb allows you to predict the way in which bonds form between atoms?

Answer 1

octet rule

Question 2

What is it call when bonds form between atoms, the atoms, gain, lose, or share electrons in such a way that they create a filled outer shell containing 8 electrons?

Answer 2

octet rule

Question 3

What do you call the attractive electrostatic force between a negative ion and a positive ion?

Answer 3

ionic bond

Question 4

What do you call a chemical compound composed of ions that are held together by ionic bonds?

Answer 4

ionic compound

Question 5

What do you call the attraction between atoms that result from the sharing of electrons?

Answer 5

covalent bond

Question 6

What do you call a chemical compound that is held together by covalent bonds?

Answer 6

molecular compound

Question 7

What do you call a covalent bond that results from atoms sharing one pair of electrons?

Answer 7

single bond

Question 8

What do you call a covalent bond that results from atoms sharing two pairs of electrons?

Answer 8

double bond

Question 9

What do you call a covalent bond that results from atoms sharing three pairs of electrons?

Answer 9

triple bond

Question 10

What do you call a pair of electrons that is shared by two atoms, thus forming a covalent bond?

Answer 10

bonding pair

Question 11

What do you call a pair of electrons that is not part of a covalent bond?

Answer 11

lone pair

Question 12

What do you call a Lewis diagram that portrays a complete molecular compound?

Answer 12

lewis structure

Question 13

What do you call a molecular compound that has an excess or a deficit of electrons, and thus has a change?

Answer 13

polyatomic ion

Question 14

What is the octet rule?

Answer 14

when bonds form between atoms, the atoms, gain, lose, or share electrons in such a way that they create a filled outer shell containing 8 electrons.

Question 15

What do you call a covalent bond around which there is an uneven distribution of electrons, making one end slightly positively charged and the other end slightly negatively charged?

Answer 15

polar covalent bond

Question 16

What do you call the difference between the electronegativities of two atoms?

Answer 16

electronegativity difference

Question 17

What do you call a base that is soluble in water?

Answer 17

alkali

Question 18

What do you call an acid composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and atoms of at least one other element?

Answer 18

oxoacid

Question 19

What do you call a diagram that has the chemical symbols connected by lines to show the connections among atoms in a chemical compound?

Answer 19

structural formula

Question 20

What do you call the temperature at which a compound changes from solid to a liquid?

Answer 20

melting point

Question 21

What do you call the temperature at which a compound changes from a liquid to a gas?

Answer 21

boiling point

Question 22

What do you call a molecule with slightly positively charged end (positive pole) and a slightly negatively charged end (negative pole)?

Answer 22

dipole

Question 23

What do you call the attractive force between the positive end of one molecule and the negative end of another molecule?

Answer 23

dipole-dipole force

Question 24

What do you call attractive forces that act between molecules?

Answer 24

intermolecular forces

Question 25

What do you call the ability of a substance or an object to allow an electric current to exist within it?

Answer 25

electrical conductivity