Polar and Nonpolar
Characteristics of Solutions
Acids
Bases
Neutralization and pH Scale
100

A molecule that has a slightly positive and a slightly negative end. 

What is polar?

What is water?

100

Solutions are a type of _____ mixture.

What is homogeneous?

100

Acids increase the concentration of _____ ions when dissolved in water.

What is H+?

What is hydrogen?

What is hydronium? 

What is H3O+?

100

Bases increase the concentration of _____ ions when dissolved in water.

What is hydroxide?

What is OH-?

100

Some solutions contain a chemical called a _____ that keeps the solution from changing pH when small adjustments in the concentration of acids or bases are made. 

What is a buffer?

200

A molecule that does not have a positive and negative end.

What is nonpolar?

200

The _____ is what is being dissolved.

What is solute?

200

Acids taste _____

What is sour?

200

Bases feel _____.

What is slippery?

200

Materials that can indicate whether a substance is an acid or a base, usually by changing color.

What is an indicator? 

300

Molecule that is called the universal solvent.

What is water?

300

Stirring, crushing, heating

What are 3 ways to make a solute dissolve faster?

What are 3 factors that affect the rate at which a solute dissolves in a solvent?

What are ways to increase solubility? 

300

Acids turn _____ litmus paper _____.

What is blue and red?

300

Bases turn _____ litmus paper _____.

What is red and blue?

300

Acid rain has a pH of 4, lemon juice has a pH of 2. How much more acidic is lemon juice than acid rain? 

What is 100 times?

400

_____ is a nonpolar molecule that will dissolve in water, but does not conduct electricity, since it does not break down into individual ions. The atoms stay together in groups. 

What is sugar?

What is sucrose?

What is glucose?

What is table sugar?

400
A solution that is heated or put under pressure so more solute can be dissolved.

What is supersaturated? 

400

Since strong acids will conduct electricity well, they are good _____.

What is electrolytes?

400

Range on the pH scale

What is 7 - 14

400

Acids and bases can react with one another to produce two neutral substances (a salt and water) in a _____ reaction.

What is neutralization?

500

_____ dissolves _____

What is like and like?

500
Identify the solvent in a solution of 60% alcohol and 40% water. 

What is the alcohol?

500

All acids contain the cation _____ as the first part of their chemical formula.

(This is always the first element in an acid's formula.)

What is H+?

What is H?

500

The last part of a chemical formula for a base is always the ion _____.

What is OH-?

What is hydroxide?

500

Provide the missing compound in the equation below:

HCl  +  NaOH  --->  _____ +  H2O

What is NaCl?