VOCaBULaRe
This is the separation, combination or rearrangement of atoms, where the atoms can not be created or destroyed.
What is a chemical reaction?
Give me three examples of extensive properties of matter
Stupid Answers
Canada’s Swan River empties into this lake.
What is Swan Lake?
A reaction between Aluminum and Hydroxide happens, what would the ionic compound be?
Al(OH)3
Poor People Have It. Rich People Need It. If You Eat It You Die. What Is It?
Nothing
What is the difference between a solid and a gas?
Definite Volume & Definite Shape vs Indefinite Volume & Indefinite Shape
What is the definition of a measurement.
A measurement is the process of associating a number with phenomena that are observed or physical quantities.
Who are the current sitting senators of New York in DC?
Check Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand
I have Carbon Dioxide and Iron (III) Chloride, what is the chemical formula for these two compounds?
CO2 & FeCl3
How much dirt is in a hole that measures four feet by four feet by five feet?
None. Holes are empty.
Identify a compound and an element in the room!
Depends
Name the standard units of measurement used in this class. (i.e. for Length, Volume, Time & Temperature)
Meters, Liters, Seconds, Kelvin
Final Jeopardy
From a flowering plant, the Aztecs used it as a chocolate enhancer and the Spanish called it this, meaning “little pod.”
What is vanilla?
Given that an element has 17, protons, 20 neutrons and 18 electrons, what is the isotopic notation for that element?
3717Cl-
How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?
Seven is the only number with two syllables.
I am a gas that has just turned directly into a solid. What physical change did I under go?
Deposition
I used a ruler which has 1/10 of a cm markings. After the experiment the length of the object was found to be 5.2367 cm. What is the uncertain digit?
+/- 0.01(the 3), the extra precision should not have been guessed.
American History
Trying to cut the surplus in 1883, the government took the excise tax off everything but these two items.
What are tobacco and liquor?
"Break up" the ionic compound Fe2(SO4)3 showing which ions are present, their charge and how many appear.
Fe2(SO4)3 --> ?
2Fe3- + 3SO42-
I have cities, but no people. I have forests, but no trees. I have rivers but no water. What am I?
A Map
Given a Avogadro's number of atoms and a scale, you can find this of the measured compound.
Molar Mass
By running electricity through water, I produced hydrogen gas and oxygen. Is this a physical or chemical property of water?
Chemical Property.
Real Final Jeopardy.
In 1994, Wired magazine described this 4- letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind... as viruses leap from body to body"?
What is a meme?
The chemical Formula of an ionic compound is Mg2P2O7. What is the anion, include symbols, subscripts and charge are correct.
P2O74-
Activity
With your group try and think of a riddle. You have X minutes.