Carbon Chemistry
Three properties of pure carbon
What are Diamond, graphite, fullerenes?
Main source of hydrocarbons
What are fossil fuels?
Effect of Hydrocarbons in fossil fuels burned with adequate oxygen is called this.
What is complete combustion?
Definition of 'bio'
What is 'life'?
All living things need this and receive it through chemical reactions.
What is energy?
Compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen
What are hydrocarbons?
3 types of fossil fuels
What are coal, natural gas, and Petroleum?
Effect of Hydrocarbons burned w/o adequate oxygen is called this.
What is incomplete combustion?
3 elements all biochemical compounds contain.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
List 2 of the most important biochemical reactions.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
single bonds in compounds that all end in '-ane'.
What are saturated hydrocarbons?
Fuel formed from tree ferns and plants buried after catastrophic events and subjected to intense pressure.
What is coal?
What is carbon monoxide?
Almost all biochemical compounds are polymers made up of these.
What are monomers?
The process of plants and animals breaking bonds in glucose to release stored energy is called this.
Cellular respiration
2 fuels created by marine organisms
What is natural gas and petroleum?
Primary products of complete combustion.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
4 main classes of biochemical compounds.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids?
Protein catalysts that help reactions take place in our cells fast enough to sustain life.
What are enzymes?
3 types of unsaturated hydrocarbons.
What are alkenes, aromatic hydrocarbons, alkynes?
fossil fuel's 3 states of matter
What is coal-solid, natural gas-gas, petroleum-liqued?
What are tiny particles of carbon called soot?
Formula of this molecule is C6 H12 O6
What is the glucose molecule?
'The pressure of a moving fluid decreases if the fluid moves faster'
What is 'Bernoulli's Principle'?