Vocab
Forming New Substances
Chemical Formulas and Equations
Types of Reactions
Energy and Rates of Chemical Reactions
100

This is a process in which one or more substances change to make one or more new substances

What is a chemical reaction?

100

The best way to tell if a chemical reaction has occurred is to see if the products have (changed/stayed the same).

What is changed?

100

The subscript in a formula tells you this.

How many atoms of a substance are in a compound.

100

C + O2 → CO2 is this type of reaction.

What is a synthesis reaction?

100

This type of reaction gives off heat or energy.

What is an exothermic reaction?

200

This is a shorthand way to use chemical symbols and numbers to represent a substance.

What is a chemical formula?

200

This is what happens to bonds during a chemical reaction.

What is bonds break and make?

200

This type of bond is made up of a metal and non-metal.

What is ionic bonding?

200

2H2O → 2H2 + O2 is this type of reaction.

What is a decomposition reaction?

200

This type of reaction takes in heat or energy.

What is an endothermic reaction?

300

This uses symbols and formulas to describe a chemical reaction.

What is a chemical equation?

300

Name a diatomic gas formed as a result of a single replacement reaction

BRINClHOF

300

In the reaction C + O2 → CO2: C + O2 are the ____________.

What are the reactants?

300

Zn + 2HCL → ZnCl2 + H2 is this type of reaction.

What is a single-replacement reaction?

300

This is the smallest amount of energy that molecules need to react.

What is activation energy?

400

This law states that matter can neither be created or destroyed, and is the reason we balance chemical equations.

What is the law of conservation of mass?

400
When an acid (containing H+) and a base (containing OH-) react, this is the product that forms.

What is water? H20

400

In the chemical equation C + O2 → CO2: CO2 is the ___________

What is the product?

400

NaCl + AgF → NaF + AgCl is this type of reaction.

What is a double-replacement reaction?

400

If you were to increase the temperature, concentration, surface area, and the catalysts of a reaction; the rate of the reaction would (increase or decrease)

What is increase?

500

A balanced equation reflects this law.

What is the law of conservation of mass?

500

The term for an insoluble product in a double replacement reaction.

What is a precipitate?

500

The name for the element CO2 is this.

What is carbon dioxide?

500

An element that can replace another in a single displacement reaction is said to be more __________.

What is reactive or active?

500

This is a substance that slows down or stops a chemical reaction.

What is an inhibitor?