EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Magnesium metal burns with a bright white light. At the end of the reaction, white magnesium oxide powder is produced. Suggest why magnesium is often found in fireworks. Your answer should include a word equation.

Important Questions on Chemical Reactions

HARD
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Nuri was doing an experiment. He has noted his observation in a table.

Test Methods Observation Conclusion
1 Add 1 drop of sodium hydroxide to iron (lll) sulphate A rust-coloured solid appeared. _____
2 Add 1 drop of sodium hydroxide to calcium chloride A white solid appeared. _____
3 Heat copper metal in a flame The metal went black _____
4 Add copper metal to hydrochloric acid. No changes observed. _____
5 Add magnesium metal to hydrochloric acid. Bubbles are seen coming off of the metal. _____

Complete the table. Write a conclusion for each experiment based on the observations.

EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Nuri was doing an experiment. He has noted his observation in a table.

Methods Observation

Add 1 drop of sodium hydroxide to calcium chloride

A white solid appeared.

Write a word equation for the reaction.

EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Nuri was doing an experiment. He has noted his observation in a table.

Methods Observation

Add copper metal to hydrochloric acid.

No changes observed.

Write a word equation for the reaction.

EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT
When zinc metal was added to some sulphuric acid, small bubbles of gas were observed. Describe a test that would show if the gas produced was hydrogen.
EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Making copper chloride crystals:

Aki wanted to make some copper chloride crystals. He started by reacting copper oxide with hydrochloric acid. After filtering off the excess copper oxide, he put the blue copper chloride solution into an evaporating basin and evaporated off the water to obtain the crystals.

  • Read the description and underline the reactants.
EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Making copper chloride crystals:

Aki wanted to make some copper chloride crystals. He started by reacting copper oxide with hydrochloric acid. After filtering off the excess copper oxide, he put the blue copper chloride solution into an evaporating basin and evaporated off the water to obtain the crystals.

  • Read the description and underline the products.
EASY
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

This question is about chemical reactions with acids.

When lemon juice is added to baking soda, bubbles can be seen. Name the gas in the bubbles.

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 8
IMPORTANT

Mrs Brown’s class were investigating how the mass of magnesium changes when it burns.

At the end of the experiment, they collected the results together in a table.

Group Mass of magnesium in the starting Mass of magnesium at the end
1 0.51 0.65
2 0.52 0.72
3 0.50 0.35
4 0.51 0.75
  • State what is missing from the table.