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Chemistry: Matter, Water, Acids & Bases, and Macromolecules
Study Guide
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class.
MATTER
1. Matter is anything that has
and
.
2. What is the difference between a physical change and a chemical change?
3. Next to each of the examples on the list, write PC for physical change and CC for chemical
change:
burning paper
painting a house
frying an egg
baking brownies
melting an ice cube
rusting metal
For #4-6, use the word bank
Negative
Positive
Neutral
Inside
Inside
Outside
4. Protons have a
charge and are located
the
charge and are located
the
charge and are located
the
nucleus of an atom.
5. Neutrons have a
nucleus of an atom.
6. Electrons have a
nucleus of an atom.
7. In the picture below, label the reactants and the products
8. What is activation energy?
WATER
9. Why are water molecules called polar molecules?
10. Fill in the blanks using the words solute and solvent:
In a solution, the
dissolves into the
.
11. What is the difference between adhesion and cohesion when discussing properties
of water?
12. Water is called the Universal
.
13. Why can’t you dissolve oil in water?
14. Water molecules are connected to each other by
bonds.
ACIDS & BASES
15. What are the properties of acids?
16. What are the properties of bases?
17. What does it mean for a substance to be neutral? What needs to be present in the same
amounts for something to be neutral?
18. Acids produce
(
) ions when dissolved in water.
19. Bases produce
(
) ions when dissolved in water.
20. Label the pH chart below using the words from the word bank.
Strong Acids
Strong Bases
Weak Acids
Strong Acids
0
21. What does a buffer do?
7
Neutral
14
ORGANIC & INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
22. What is the difference between organic and inorganic compounds?
23. Is there an exception for inorganic compounds?
24. Carbon atoms are connected by
bonds.
25. If monomers are like letters, then polymers are like
.
COMPOUNDS OF LIFE
26. Fill in the chart below:
Macromolecule
Description
Examples
27. Plants store energy as
.
28. Animals store energy as
.
29. What word means “two sugars”?
30. What word means “many sugars”?
31. What kind of macromolecule is this?
32. What do carbohydrates do for our bodies?
33. Fill in the blanks using the words single and double:
Saturated fats have
bonds and unsaturated fats have
bonds.
34. What are some other differences between saturated and unsaturated fats?
35. What is an example of a saturated fat?
36. What is an example of an unsaturated fat?
37. Fill in the blanks using the words head and tail. A phospholipid is made up of a
hydrophilic
and a hydrophobic
.
38. What do lipids do for our bodies?
39. What are proteins made up of?
40. A catalyst inside our bodies is known as an
.
41. What does a catalyst do?
42. How do you know something is an enzyme just by looking at its name?
43. What is the place called where an enzyme “locks into” a substrate?
44. Proteins (amino acids) are connected by
bonds.
45. What do proteins do for our bodies?
46. How do you put molecules together to form carbohydrates, lipids, or proteins?
Process name:
What it does:
47. How do you break carbohydrate, lipid, or protein molecules apart?
Process name:
What it does: