What is the only bird that has been documented to be able to fly backwards?
What is the name of the starting substances in a chemical equation?
Reactants
What is a process in which one or more substances change to make one or more new substances?
What is a chemical reaction
Sodium is a metal that reacts violently in water and chlorine is a poisonous gas. What is produced when sodium and chlorine react?
What is table salt, a harmless substance?
A chemical reaction in which a substance combines with oxygen and releases energy.
What is a combustion reaction?
What is the name of the substances that are formed as a result in a chemical equation?
Products
The starting substance in a chemical reaction that undergo a change to form products
Reactants
These TINY red fiery insects use formic acid to create a chemical reaction that protects them from predators, what are they?
Fire/Crazy ants
One compound breaks down and forms two or more substances.
What is a decomposition reaction?
Why are flamingos pink and what color are they born?
Flamingos are not pink. They are born grey, their diet of brine shrimp and blue green algae contains a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that makes their feathers pink.
What is the name of a number placed in front of a term in a chemical equation to tell how many atoms take part in the reaction?
Coefficients
A solid that form that separates from a solution during a chemical reaction, often when two solutions are mixed and react.
Precipitate
Daily Double!!
What is the law of the conservation of mass?
The law states that mass can neither be created nor destroyed...
If you replace one element with another, you have this type of reaction
What is a single replacement reaction?
As a rooster tilts its head back and crows the sound omitted is over 100 decibels (louder then a chainsaw) if they crow multiple times a day why don't they go deaf rather quickly?
Roosters prevent themselves from going deaf due to their own loud crowing, by tilting their head backs when they crow, which covers their ear canal completely, serving as a built-in ear-plug.
Now you know....
What is the name of the small number written at the bottom of the symbol?
Ex: H2
Subscript
A type of chemical reaction in which two or more simple substances combine to form a more complex chemical product.
Synthesis Reaction
This is the name of the chemical reaction in organisms that causes Red Tides.
What is bioluminescence?
When you combine two compounds to create one product, you have this type of chemical reactions.
What is a synthesis reaction?
What species has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood?
The Giant Pacific Octopus-
They are also able to change their color and texture to camouflage themselves in a blink of an eye.
What is the name of the symbol that points from the reactants to the products?
the arrow, or =
The substance that is dissolved in a solvent to form a solution.
Solute
We just watched Pocahontas: Disney typically features cute and funny animal sidekicks to keep everyone entertained. What are the animal buddies of Pocahontas?
Named Meeko and Flit, the raccoon and hummingbird provide some comedy to the movie.
When the negative ions in two compounds switch places and form two new compounds, you have this type of chemical reaction.
What is a double replacement reaction?