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Honors Chemistry Midterm Review
1. What is chemistry?
2. In which of the following is the zero not significant?
a. 1.050
b. 1.05
c. 1.50
d. 1050
3. What is the SI unit of energy?
4. What is a physical change?
5. What is an atom?
6. What is atomic number?
7. What is an isotope?
8. What is an alpha particle?
9. What is nuclear fission?
10. What is nuclear fusion?
11. What are the units for frequency?
12. Who explained the photoelectric effect? What is the photoelectric effect?
13. What is the ground state? What is the excited state?
14. Who is credited with making the first periodic table of elements?
15. What are the group names of the following groups on the periodic table:
 Group 1
 Group 2
 Groups 3-12
 Group 17
 Group 18
16. Which subatomic particle is responsible for the properties of an element?
17. What happens when an atom loses electrons? When it gains electrons?
18. What is an alloy? Give an example.
19. How many atoms do the following groups gain/lose when they become ions:
 Group 1
 Group 2
 Group 13
 Group 15
 Group 16
 Group 17
20. What is the octet rule?
21. What suffix is included on all monatomic anions?
22. How many electrons are shared in a single bond? A double bond? A triple bond?
23. What are the electronegativity difference ranges for nonpolar bonds? For polar bonds? For ionic bonds?
24. What is a polar bond?
25. What are the metric prefixes and what are their meanings?
26. What is the density formula?
27. What are the steps of the scientific method?
28. What is a scientific law?
29. What is a theory?
30. What are the rules for significant figures when multiplying/dividing? When adding/subtracting?
31. What is absolute zero?
32. What is an element?
33. What is a compound?
34. What are the postulates of Dalton’s theory of matter?
35. What is the mass number of an element?
36. What are parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in order from lowest frequency/lowest energy to highest
frequency/highest energy?
37. What are quanta of light called?
38. What are the three rules that govern electron configurations?
39. What are the rows of the periodic table called? The columns?
40. What are valence electrons?
41. What is ionization energy?
42. What is an ionic bond?
43. What is a covalent bond?
44. Covalent bonds occur between ______ and ________. Ionic bonds occur between _______ and
________.
45. What are states of matter and how are they characterized?
46. What is a heterogeneous mixture?
47. What value is an element’s identity based upon?
48. What is a beta particle?
49. What is the dual nature of light?
50. What is an orbital?
51. What is atomic radius?
52. Give some properties of ionic compounds.
53. What is a chemical change?
54. What is the SI unit of temperature?
55. What is a physical property?
56. What is a homogeneous mixture?
57. What are the three main subatomic particles? Give their charges, mass, and their location in the atom.
58. What is half-life?
59. What are the four properties by which waves are measured?
60. What is a quantum?
61. What is the periodic law?
62. What is malleability?
63. What is electronegativity?
64. What is the periodic trend for atomic radius?
65. Compare/contrast single, double, and triple bonds in terms of bond length and strength.
66. Who came up with the Plum Pudding model of the atom?
67. Who came up with the Planetary model of the atom?
68. Who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics?
69. Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry?
70. Give the formula:
 Copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate
 Hydrobromic acid
 Nitrous acid
 Magnesium nitride
 Aluminum sulfate
 Diphosphorus pentaoxide
71. Give the name:
 HF
 HNO2
 Al2O3
 FeCl3
 CaCO3
 N2O
72. Give the Lewis dot structure:
 Carbon dioxide
 Nitrogen atom
 Nitride ion
 Hydrobromic acid
 Carbon tetrachloride
73. Give the full and abbreviated electron configuration:
 Chlorine

Silver

Tungsten

Promethium
74. Solve the following nuclear equations:
a. the alpha decay of uranium-238
b. the beta decay of francium-223
c. the positron emission of uranium-235