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Properties of Organic Compounds
Structures
Polymers
Life With Carbon
100
The maximum number of bonds a carbon atom can form.
What is 4?
100
The reason carbon is so unique compared to other elements.
What is its ability to bond with both itself and other elements in so many different ways?
100
Single-bonded, maximum number of hydrogen atoms possible on its carbon chain.
What is a saturated hydrocarbon?
100
A very large molecule made of a chain of many smaller molecules bonded together.
What is a polymer?
100
An energy-rich organic compound made up of the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What is a carbohydrate?
200
The maximum number of bonds a hydrogen atom can form.
What is 1?
200
4 forms of the element carbon.
What is diamond, graphite, fullerene, and nanotube?
200
Hydrocarbons with double or triple bonds that have fewer hydrogen atoms for each carbon atom.
What is an unsaturated hydrocarbon?
200
The name given to the smaller portions of polymers.
What is monomer?
200
This carbohydrate is sometimes called "blood sugar" because of where and how it travels through the body.
What is glucose?
300
The maximum number of bonds an oxygen atom can form.
What is 2?
300
2 of the most useful properties of hydrocarbons.
What are flammability and the fact that they don't mix well with water?
300
The ending given to saturated hydrocarbons.
What is -ane?
300
The structure of polymers.
What is a straight chain?
300
A polymer made of smaller molecules that are simple carbohydrates bonded together.
What is a complex carbohydrate?
400
A dash represents this.
What is a bond?
400
The shape(s) of carbon chains in a hydrocarbon.
What is straight, branched, or ring-shaped?
400
The ending(s) given to unsaturated hydrocarbons.
What is -ene or -yne?
400
A natural polymer that aids in digestion.
What is cellulose?
400
Energy-rich compounds made of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. (Hint - they release twice as much energy as carbohydrates.)
What are lipids?
500
The number of valence electrons of Carbon.
What is 4?
500
An example of a hydrocarbon.
What is methane, propane, butane, etc.?
500
2 or more compounds that have the same formula but a different arrangement of atoms.
What is an isomer?
500
A natural polymer made up of long chains of amino acids.
What is protein?
500
Very large organic molecules made up of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
What are nucleic acids?
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