Atoms
What is the building blocks of matter
Atom
What is element?
Pure substances that cannot be broken down into other substances by physical or chemical means.
What is an atom that has lost or gained one or more electrons?
Ion
What is the substance formed by a chemical reaction; located on the right side of the arrow in a chemical equation?
Products
What is the specific location where a substrate binds on an enzyme?
Active Site
This is where the neutrons and protons are located.
Nucleus
Why is water considered a polar molecule?
It has slightly positive and negative charge.
What is an electrical attraction between two oppositely charged atoms or groups of atoms called ions?
Ionic bond
What is the minimum amount of energy needed for reactants to form products in a chemical reaction?
Activation Energy
What is polar molecules?
These are molecules that have an unequal distribution of charges.
What are positively charged particles?
Protons
What is a pure substance formed when two or more different elements combine?
Compound
Give examples of acidic solution.
sulfuric acid, citric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, and acetic acid.
What is a substance that lowers the activation energy needed to start a chemical reaction?
Catalyst
What is a weak interaction involving a hydrogen atom and fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen atom.
Hydrogen Bond
What are particles that have no charge?
Neutrons
What is the chemical bond that forms when electrons are shared?
Covalent Bond
What is the process by which atoms or groups of atoms in substances are recognized into different substances?
Chemical Reaction
What is he biological catalysts that speed up the rate of chemical reactions in biological processes?
Enzymes
What is a combination of two or more substances in which each substance retains its individual characteristics and properties.
Mixture
What are negatively charged particles that are located outside that nucleus?
Electrons
What is a compound in which the atoms are held together by covalent bonds?
Molecule
What is the substance that exits before a chemical reaction starts; located on the left side of the arrow in a chemical reaction?
Reactants
What is he reactants that bind o the enzyme?
Substrates
What is a substance in which another substance dissolved?
Solvent