Types of Bonds
What type of bond forms when electrons are shared?
What is a covalent bond?
Ionic bonds usually occur between what types of elements?
Metals and nonmetals.
All organic molecules contain this element.
What is carbon?
Name CO₂.
Carbon dioxide.
A long chain molecule made of repeating units.
What is a polymer?
What type of bond forms when electrons are transferred?
What is an ionic bond?
Covalent bonds usually occur between what types of elements?
Nonmetals and nonmetals.
Organic molecules are held together by what type of bonds?
Covalent bonds.
Name SF₆.
Sulfur hexafluoride.
The repeating units in a polymer are called what?
Monomers.
Which type of bond forms ions?
What is an ionic bond?
Do covalent compounds form molecules or ions?
Molecules.
What is the general term for molecules made only of carbon and hydrogen?
What are hydrocarbons?
Name N₂O.
Dinitrogen monoxide.
Proteins are made of what monomers?
Amino acids.
This distance is measured between two bonded nuclei.
What is bond length?
Describe one property of an ionic solid.
They form crystal lattice structures.
What is the branch of science that studies carbon-based compounds?
What is organic chemistry?
What prefix means “5”?
Penta–.
DNA is a polymer. What is its monomer?
Nucleotides.
Why do atoms bond in the first place?
To become more stable by filling their valence shell.
Give one reason why covalent compounds exist in all three states of matter.
Weak intermolecular forces allow them to be solids, liquids, or gases.
What makes a molecule “organic”?
It contains carbon bonded to hydrogen.
Name the compound PCl₃.
Phosphorus trichloride.
Explain why plastics, proteins, and starches are all considered polymers.
They are all made of repeating monomers.