Unit 6 Objectives
Reactions and Equations
1. Be able to write chemical equations from word descriptions.
2. Be able to write word descriptions of chemical reactions and equations.
3. Be able to balance chemical equations.
Read Section 8.1
P. 268: practice problems 1, 2, 3; p. 272: practice problem 1, 2; p. 274: practice problem 1
p. 274: section review – 2, 3, 4 only
4. Be able to identify a reaction as one of the five major types.
5. Be able to predict the products for a chemical reaction, given the reactants.
Read section 8.2 and 8.3
P. 284: section review, p. 287: practice problems 1, 2, 3 and section review 2 and 3 only
p. 291: 19, 20, 22 - 30, 33 a, 34, 35,
6. Be able to predict if a double replacement reaction will produce a precipitate and predict the
precipitate by knowing the basic solubility rules.
7. Be able to write ionic and net ionic equations for chemical reactions.
Read section 13.1 and study the general solubility rules table on p. 437. (Table 1)
P. 436: practice problem 1, p. 440: practice problems 1, 2, 3, 4, p. 458: 2, 5, 11, 12
8. Be able to define oxidation and reduction and determine what species goes through oxidation
or reduction in an appropriate chemical reaction.
Read section 19.1
P.635: section Review – 2, 3, and 4