Useful Chemistry
Everyday Reactions
Chemical Reactions
Reactions and the Environment
WHMIS
100

Lemon juice has this type of pH.

What is low pH?

100

This helps speed up chemical reactions.

What are enzymes?

100

This chemical reaction involves two elements coming together to form a compound.

What is a formation reaction?

100

This natural base is used to neutralize lakes.

What is limestone?

100

This is what WHMIS stands for.

What is Workplace Hazardous Material Information System?

200

This type of pesticide kills unwanted plants.

What is a herbicide? 

200

This common household item uses hydrogen peroxide to help make white fabrics look cleaner.

What is bleach?

200

This chemical reaction has fuel and oxygen as its reactants. 

What is a combustion reaction?

200

This acid/base reaction happens in our stomach.

What is a neutralization reaction?

200

This safety symbol is shaped like an orange diamond.

What is a warning?
300

Examples of this type of fibre are nylon, polyester, and kevlar.

What is synthetic fibres?

300

A substance(s) on the left side of a chemical equation.

What are reactants?

300

The compound that is the salt in this neutralization reaction.

HBr + KOH -> KBr + H2O

What is KBr?

300

This process happens when chemicals in the air combine, such as sulfuric or nitric acid, and come down back to Earth in a different form.

What is acid rain?

300

This document provides detailed information about the product. 

What is the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)?

400

This term is used to describe a mixture of metals.

What is an alloy?

400
This symbol is used to help separate reactants and products in a chemical equation.

What is an arrow?

400

The amount of atoms of calcium, hydrogen, and oxygen in this compound.

Ca(OH)2


What is 1 calcium, 2 hydrogen, and 2 oxygen?

400

This process is used to reduce sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere.

What is scrubbing?

400

This hazardous material damages or eats through metals or skin/lungs. 

What is corrosive?

500

This simple organism makes bread rise.

What is yeast?

500

This everyday process by living organisms has carbon dioxide, water vapour, and energy as its products.

What is cellular respiration?

500

The balanced equation of this chemical reaction.


CH4 + O2 -> H2O + CO2

What is CH4 + 2O2 -> 2H2O + CO?

500

This process is used to prevent metal from corroding on pipelines.

What is sacrificial metal?

500

An example of this hazard is gasoline.

What is flammable?