Question 1

3 out of 3 points

Which of the following would be an example of a heterogeneous mixture?

Selected Answer:

ocean water
Correct Answer:

ocean water
Response
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Ocean water is a complex heterogeneous mixture of elements, compounds,

and living organisms, whose composition varies from sample to sample.

Question 2
0 out of 3 points

You collect several samples of a material from various locations. If each sample is
comprised of the same two or more substances in the same proportion, the material you
are examining is a(n):
Selected Answer:

homogeneous mixture
Correct Answer:

compound
Response
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Compounds are substances that form from two or more elements, have the
same percentage composition in every sample, and show the same physical
and chemical properties in every sample.

Question 3
3 out of 3 points

Because sugar is composed of two or more different, chemically-bonded elements, sugar is

a(n):
Selected Answer:

compound
Correct Answer:

compound
Response
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Any substance that is composed of two or more elements that cannot be

separated by physical means is a compound.

Question 4
2 out of 2 points

Compounds can be separated into their component elements by physical means.

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False
Response Feedback: Components in a compound cannot be separated by physical means.

Question 5
2 out of 2 points

If two well-trained chemists, in separate locations, are both producing 'Compound X,' then
the two samples of 'Compound X' are identical.
Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response
Feedback:

Compounds have constant composition and do not depend on how they

are prepared or purified.

Question 6
2 out of 2 points

A mixture may be composed of elements, compounds or both.

Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response Feedback:

A mixture may be made of elements, compounds or both.

Question 7
4 out of 5 points

While studying for your chemistry exam, you decide to make a cup of hot cocoa from an
instant pack, knowing the caffeine in the chocolate will help you stay awake. The dry
substance pours from the package and you notice it contains mini-marshmallows, brown
powder, and two different types of very small white crystals. You add the water, but eat the
marshmallows before drinking the cocoa. Use the following terms: homogeneous mixture,
heterogeneous mixture, solution, and compound to describe each of the changes to your
hot cocoa.
Selected When making this cocoa, I probably would burn myself before anything happens.
Answer: In the beginning, if i didn't eat the marshmallows this would become a
heterogeneous mixture. If i ate the marshmallows, it will become homogeneous
because it is blended through evenly, and it appears to be a uniform solution.
Correct
Answer:

In dry form, this instant cocoa is a heterogeneous mix of sugar,

cocoa, salt, and marshmallows. Some of these form solutions
(homogeneous mixture) when mixed with water, most notably
sugar and salt. Both before and after eating the marshmallows, the

cocoa was a heterogeneous mixture--the cocoa will still form a

sediment upon resting. The caffeine in the chocolate is a
compound.
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Question 8
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is an extensive physical property?

Selected Answer:

mass
Correct Answer:

mass
Response
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Extensive physical properties of matter are dependent on the amount of

the sample.

Question 9
0 out of 3 points

Which of the following is NOT an intensive physical property of matter?

Selected Answer:

mass
Correct Answer:

density
Response
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Intensive properties do not change when the amount of the sample

changes.

Question 10
2 out of 2 points

Homogeneous mixtures exist in a single phase (solid, liquid or gas).

Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response Feedback:

Homogeneous mixtures, like sugar water, exist in a single phase.

Question 11
2 out of 2 points

Any sample of the same compound always has the same elements in the same
proportions.

Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response
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No matter what the size or method of construction of the sample, a

compound will always be made of the same elements in the same
proportions.

Question 12
2 out of 2 points

Water is not a pure substance.

Selected Answer:

False
Correct Answer:

False
Response
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Water is a compound that is always comprised of two parts of hydrogen and

one part of oxygen; it can only be separated by chemical means.

Question 13
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is not a physical change of matter?

Selected Answer:

popping popcorn
Correct Answer:

popping popcorn
Response
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Popping popcorn changes the composition of the corn; therefore, this is a

chemical change.

Question 14
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is not an example of a physical change?

Selected Answer:

new substances form

Correct Answer:

new substances form

Response Feedback:

A chemical change occurs anytime a new substance forms.

Question 15
2 out of 2 points

Slowly heating butter in a pan until it changes from a solid to a liquid is an example of a
physical change.
Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Melting the butter changes the properties of the butter, but not its
composition.

Response
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Question 16
2 out of 2 points

Sharpening a pencil is an example of a physical change.

Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response
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The pencil's composition has not been changed. The fine materials in the
pencil sharpener are still wood and pencil 'lead.'

Question 17
2 out of 2 points

A candle burning is an example of a physical change.

Selected Answer:

False
Correct Answer:

False
Response
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As a candle burns, the candle compounds combine with oxygen and form
new products.

Question 18
3 out of 3 points

If you were to take several random samples from a mixture of salt and sand, the samples
would:
Selected Answer:

not be identical
Correct Answer:

not be identical
Response
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A mixture of salt and sand is heterogeneous, therefore the samples would

not be identical.

Question 19
3 out of 3 points

A compound, like water, can be broken down (decomposed) by:

Selected Answer:

electrolysis
Correct Answer:

electrolysis
Response Feedback: Compounds cannot be broken down (decomposed) by physical means.

Question 20
3 out of 3 points

Which one of the following is not an example of a chemical change?

Selected Answer:

subliming dry ice

Correct Answer:

subliming dry ice

Subliming dry ice is a physical change (solid carbon dioxide becoming
gaseous).

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Question 21
2 out of 2 points

Soaking beans in water make the beans swell in size. If left to dry, the beans return to their
original size and shape. Therefore, this is a physical change.
Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response
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The process does not change the composition of the beans; therefore, it is
a physical change.

Question 22
5 out of 5 points

Suppose that when you wake up in the morning, you are very hungry. So, you brew some
coffee, cook some oatmeal on the stove, make some toasted bread, melt some butter on
the toast, and then place an antacid tablet in water.Which of the italicized items are
physical changes and which are chemical changes?
Selected
brew some coffee- Physical Change, Chemical Compound isn't Changing.
Answer:
cook some oatmeal on the stove- Chemical, Chemical Compound is
changing.

make some toasted bread- Chemical Change, Chemical Compound is

Changing.

melt some butter on the toast- Physical Change, Chemical Compound isn't
Changing.

place an antacid tablet in water- Chemical, bubbly reaction usually

means Chemical
Correct Answer:

Chemical changes: cooking oatmeal, making toast, placing

antacid in water.
Physical changes: brewing coffee, melting butter.
Response
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[None Given]

Question 23
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is a chemical property of iron?

Selected Answer:

it reacts with oxygen to form rust

Correct Answer:

it reacts with oxygen to form rust

A chemical property describes how a substance reacts with another
substance.

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Question 24
3 out of 3 points

At 25 degrees (C), chlorine is a green-yellow gas with a density of 3 10 3 grams per

centimeter cubed (g/cm3). Chlorine has a melting point of 101C and a boiling point of
35C, and the energy required to melt and boil chlorine is 6.4 kilojoules per mole (kJ/mol)
and 20.4 kJ/mol, respectively. Chlorine gas combines with hydrogen gas to form hydrogen
chloride gas. From the list below, identify the only chemical property of chlorine listed.
Selected Answer:

burns in hydrogen to form hydrogen chloride

Correct Answer:

burns in hydrogen to form hydrogen chloride

Response
Feedback:

Chemical properties are those properties that are evidence of a chemical

change to a substance.

Question 25
3 out of 3 points

Matter that has definite shape and definite volume is a:

Selected Answer:

solid
Correct Answer:

solid

Response Feedback:

Solids have definite shape and definite volume.

Question 26
3 out of 3 points

This form of matter does not have definite shape or volume.

Selected Answer:

gases
Correct Answer:

gases
Response Feedback:

Gases and plasmas do not have definite shape or volume.

Question 27
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is not a physical property?

Selected Answer:

reactivity
Correct Answer:

reactivity
Response Feedback:

Reactivity is a chemical change and not a physical property.

Question 28
3 out of 3 points

Anything with mass and volume is:

Selected Answer:

matter
Correct Answer:

matter
Response
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Anything, in any form (gas, liquid, or solid), that has mass and volume is
matter.

Question 29
2 out of 2 points

Ice cream melting is a chemical change.

Selected Answer:

False
Correct Answer:

False
Response Ice cream in a normal setting is never a true solid. Sugars and salts in the

Feedback: colloidal mixture continue to depress the freezing point of ice cream so that

even at -16°C, only about 72 percent of the water in the ice cream is
frozen. Ice cream changing from a colloidal mixture to a more liquid state is a
physical change, since no chemical reactions take place.

Question 30
2 out of 2 points

When two substances are combined, bubbling is usually a sign of a chemical change.
Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response
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The production of gases when chemicals combine is usually a sign of a

chemical change.

Question 31
3 out of 3 points

Activated charcoal removes fine particulates, as well as lead, mercury, copper, and
chlorine from water through a separation process called:
Selected Answer:

absorption
Correct Answer:

absorption
Response
Feedback:

Some solids are able to bind gases and organic materials to their surfaces,
which removes these materials from a mixture.

Question 32
3 out of 3 points

Which of the following is not an advantage of using chromatography separation?

Selected Answer:

can be used to separate large samples

Correct Answer:

can be used to separate large samples

Response
Feedback:

Paper chromatography cannot be used to separate large samples for

further analysis.

Question 33
2 out of 2 points

You have a mixture of iron and lead filings. Magnetism would be a good way to separate

these.
Selected Answer:

True
Correct Answer:

True
Response Feedback:

Iron is magnetic and lead is not.

Question 34
5 out of 5 points

Describe how you would separate water from a mixture of water, alcohol and sand.
Selected You would first filter sand out, using some sort of filter paper. After taking out the
Answer: sand, you would be left with a water and alchol mixture; however, this is easy
enough to seperate because water and alcohol have different boiling points.
Finally you would distillate the alcohol, leaving you with sand water and
evaporated alcohol.
Correct
Answer:

Separate the sand from the water and alcohol using filtration.
Separate the alcohol from the water using distillation. The alcohol
will come out of the solution first, since it has a lower boiling point
than water. Pure water will be left.

Response [None Given]

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Question 35
3 out of 5 points

Without sorting the mixture by hand or other mechanical means, describe a method to
separate a mixture of raisins and pea-gravel (small rocks with the same coloring and size
as the raisins).
Selected
#1 Because hands aren't allowed, we could put the mixture into the mouth and
Answer:
eat the rasins and spit out the rock.
#2 Since the rasin has lighter weight than the pea-gravel, we could spread
them on a table and use a fan to blow the rasins out.
#3 We could put water into the solution and let the rasins absorb the water to
expand, then use a strainer. This will result in the rocks exiting and the rasins
remain in the container.
Correct
Answer:

Separation can be achieved by floatation. The student should

make note that raisins do not float in water and that a liquid with
higher density would be needed to float the raisins.

Response [None Given]

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