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Republic of the Philippines

SULTAN KUDARAT POLYTECHNIC STATE COLLEGE


College of Arts & Sciences
Tacurong City

CHEM 110 (GENERAL CHEMISTRY )


MIDTERM EXAMINATION
July 29, 2011

Directions: This is a one-hour examination. Read and understand the items carefully. Write
legibly. Write all answers in the test booklet.

I MULTIPLE CHOICE (10 points)


Directions: Choose the best answer. Write the letter of your choice in the test booklet.

1. Chemistry involves the study of matter. This can be explained by the following
statements EXCEPT:
a. Chemistry is about properties of matter.
b. Chemistry is about the study of forces and energy.
c. Chemistry is about what things or objects are made of.
d. Chemistry is about finding ways of changing matter to useful products.

2. Which of the following is not an element?


a. brass b. liquid bromine c. carbon rod d. mossy zinc

3. Which is considered the building blocks of matter or the smallest unit of an element?
a. atom b. molecule c. ion d. blood

4. Who devised the system of using letters as symbols and calculated relative atomic
masses.
a. Jons Berzelius b. James Chadwick c. John Newlands d. Dmitri Mendeleev

5. Which statement is NOT a chemical property?


a. A stick of butter melts. c. Water is broken down to hydrogen and oxygen.
b. A car fender gets rusty. d. A pile of paper burns spontaneously.

6. Which among the samples below is NOT a heterogeneous mixture?


a. 1 mL of blood c. 1 bottle of coke
b. 2 g of brass d. 100 ml of seawater

7. Which statement describes chemical change?


a. Ice melts at 0C.
b. A spoonful of salt dissolves in a bowl of soup.
c. The balloons shape change when the helium gas leaks out.
d. Oxygen gas supports combustion.

8. Which theory of Daltons is not already acceptable today?


a. All atoms of a given element are alike.
b. No atoms are created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.
c. Atoms of one element differ from the atoms of any other element.
d. Compounds are formed when two atoms of different elements combine in fixed
proportions.

9. Who is the Father of Modern Chemistry?


a. A. Lavoisier b. J. Dalton c. J.J Thomson d. A.H Becquerel

10. Which particle/s account/s for most of the mass of the atom?
a. electron and proton c. neutron and proton
b. proton only d. neutron only
II IDENTIFICATION (10 points)
Directions: Fill-in the blanks with the correct answer. Write all answers in the test booklet.

1. The lightest element is ___________________________________.


2. Construction of tentative answers to the problems that are mentally formulated conforming to
the observed law is making____________________.
3. _________________________is an English scientist who considered that cathode rays
consist of negatively-charged particles called electron.
4. The number of protons in an atom of an element is equal to its____________________.
5. The ammonium ion, NH4+, is an example of _________________ ion.
6. Group IA to Group VIII metals are called _______________________________.
7. In the Modern Periodic Table, the elements are arranged in order of increasing
____________.
8. An example of element that exist as a diatomic molecule is________________________.
9. The name of the compound CO2 is _____________________________.
10. Condensation is an example of _________________ change.

III ENUMERATION (10 pts)


1-2 types of matter
3-4 types of pure substances
5-6 two methods of separating mixtures
7-8 two examples of endothermic processes
9-10 two examples of homogeneous mixtures

IV PROBLEM SOLVING. Solve the following problems. Show all solutions.

1. A grocery bag weighs 5,250 grams. What is its weight in kilograms? (5 pts)

2. The temperature of a flaming iron rod is 3400 C. Convert this temperature to


a



47 Ag
+1

5. The density of liquid mercury is 13.9 g/cm3. What is the


b. mass of 100 ml of Hg
c. volume of 37.20 g of Hg? (10 points)

V DISCUSSION. Discuss briefly but concisely.

1. Why do hot air balloons rise? (5 points)


2. State one of the three Laws of Chemical Change explained by the Daltons Atomic
Theory? Explain its relevance. (5 points)

***g o o d l u c k ***

Prepared by:
PROF. JOVITA S. CARIGABA
Instructor

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