Vocabulary
What is the definition of pH?
The measurement of acidity or basicity of a solution
What is happening to the pH of oceans due to ocean acidification?
Getting more acidic
what is the main cause of ocean acidification?
Carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere that dissolves in the ocean.
What is the neutral pH level?
7
What is the general formula for an alkane?
CnH2n+2
What is the definition of Ocean Acidification?
The ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans.
Ocean life that are affected most by ocean acidification.
shellfish
What is the major cause of rising carbon dioxide levels?
The burning of fossil fuels.
What does a higher pH mean? What does a lower pH mean?
A higher pH is more basic and a lower pH is acidic.
What mneumonic could you use to remember the first 4 alkanes?
Monkeys Methane
Eat Ethane
Peeled Propane
Bananans Butane
What is a fossil fuel?
A fuel derived from the remains of ancient plants and animals, formed naturally in Earth's crust
30%
How does deforestation contribute to ocean acidification?
When there are less trees to absorb CO2, there is more CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.
What would you use to determine the pH of a water sample?
What is the smallest unit of matter
Atoms
What are greenhouse gases?
Gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
At what pH would cause fish to die?
4.2
Do volcanoes or people contribute more CO2 to the environment?
People
Name the first 8 alkanes
Methane, Eathane, Propane, Butane, Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane
What is the name of the alkane with this formula:
C5 H12
Pentane
What is Carbonic Acid?
What compound is decreased because of ocean acidification?
carbonate
What is increasing in the water that causes calcium carbonate shells to begin dissolving?
carbonic acid.
What pH level is the Ocean supposed to be?
~8.1
What colour is the flame which results in complete combustion?
Blue