Worksheet : 4 Name : ________________

Grade : IGCSE - I Date : ____/____/________

Subject : CHEMISTRY Teacher’s Signature : ____

Topic : The behavior of the metals

Q. I) Answer the following questions.

1. Small pieces of four different metals were placed in identical amounts of hydrochloric acid. The results are shown
below.

(a) Place the metals on order of reactivity, starting with the most reactive.

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(b) The four metals used in the experiment were calcium, magnesium, iron and platinum.
Use your knowledge of these four metals to identify the metals A, B, C & D.

Metal A _________________________________________________________________________________

Metal B_________________________________________________________________________________

Metal C_________________________________________________________________________________

Metal D _________________________________________________________________________________

(c) When magnesium meets with hydrochloric acid, it forms magnesium chloride and hydrogen.

(i) Balance the following equation

Mg(s) + ___HCl(aq) MgCl2(aq) + H2(g)

(ii) When magnesium reacts with sulphuric acid it forms magnesium sulphate.

If a chloride ion is Cl– and a sulphate ion is SO42–, what is the formula of magnesium sulphate?
Explain your answer.

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 (iii) What salt is formed when magnesium reacts with nitric acid?

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2. Below is a section of the reactivity series for metals.

potassium

calcium

magnesium

zinc increasing reactivity

lead

copper

Use this reactivity series to answer the following questions.

(a) Predict if there will be a reaction when the following chemicals are added together. If you predict a react,
write a word equation for it.

(i) zinc and copper sulphate solution

prediction

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equation

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(ii) Calcium and potassium sulphate solution

prediction

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equation

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(iii) Magnesium and zinc sulphate solution

prediction

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equation

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 3. A new metal has been discovered.

It has the name mancunium with the symbol M.

Mancunium reacts violently with water to form a colourless gas and an alkaline solution. The alkaline solution
is mancunium hydroxide with formula MOH.
Mancunium also forms a chloride salt with formula MCl.

(a) Describe a test to show that the solution formed with water was alkaline.

TEST

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RESULT

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(b) Use the information to predict the formula of mancunium oxide.

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(c) In which group of the Periodic Table would you place mancunium.
Give a reason for your answer.

GROUP

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REASON

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(d) Part of the reactivity series for metals is shown below.

CALCIUM
ZINC
IRON
COPPER

Rewrite this reactivity series and include the metal mancunium.

Give a reason for your position.

REACTIVITY SERIES

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REASON

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 (e) Mancunium was found to react with copper sulphate solution. Give the names of the products of the
reaction.

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(f) Mancunium hydroxide reacts with sulphuric acid to form a salt and water.

(i) Complete the word equation by naming the salt formed in this reaction.

mancunium hydroxide + sulphuric acid → _____________________ + water

(ii) Complete the symbol equation for this reaction.

______ MOH + H2SO4 → ________________________________

4. Reactions that give out a large amount of heat have many uses.

A company has invented 'cook-in-the-can' meals.

A ring is pulled which ignites the chemicals surrounding the can. The chemicals react and produce heat, which
cooks the food in the can.

One of the reactions used is a mixture of aluminium powder and iron(III) oxide.

The aluminium used is finely powdered.

(a)(i) Complete the word equation below for this reaction:

aluminium + iron(III) oxide → ______________ + _______________

(ii) Balance the symbol equation for this reaction.

___ Al + Fe2O3 → Al2O3 + ___ Fe

(b) Use your ideas of the reactivity series of metals to explain why these substances react.

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(c) Suggest a reason why the aluminium used is powdered.

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 (d)(i) John tried out some reactions in the laboratory that may produce heat.

He used a mixture of powdered copper metal and iron(III) oxide.

Give a reason why John was unsuccessful.

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(ii) John found a copy of the reactivity series in a chemistry textbook. It is shown below:

magnesium

zinc

iron

silver

gold

5. Use this information to name another metal that John could use that would react with iron(III) oxide.

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Some students were investigating the reaction between zinc metal and copper sulphate solution.
They set up the apparatus as shown in the diagram below.

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(a) Name a piece of apparatus that could be used to measure out 50 cm of copper sulphate solution.

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(b) Name a piece of apparatus that could be used to measure 5 g of zinc metal.

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(c) The reaction is exothermic. Describe what the students would see.

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 (d) Complete the equation for the reaction

Zn + CuSO4 → _________ + ___________

(e) Zinc metal was present 'in excess' in this experiment. Explain what is meant by 'in excess'.

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(f) The students repeated the experiment but added zinc to magnesium sulphate solution.

(i) What would the students see?

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(ii) Explain your answer.

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6. Reactions were carried out using four different metals - A, B, C and D.

The table below shows the results of reacting these metals with air and then with water.

metal reaction with air reaction with water

A changes colour on heating no reaction
B burns in air to form a white solid bubbles of gas on surface
C no reactionc no reaction
D hanges colour when placed in air fizzes vigorously

(a) From the reactions in the table, give one example of a chemical change.
Give a reason for your choice.

METAL

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REACTION WITH

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REASON

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(b) Use the information in the table to place the four metals in order of reactivity.

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MOST REACTIVE ____________________

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LEAST REACTIVE ____________________

(c) Which of the four metals is most likely to be an alkali metal? Give a reason for your choice.
The group I metal is likely to be ________.

REASON

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(d) Which of the four metals would be found 'native'?

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(e) Metal A was found to be copper.

Write a word equation for the reaction of copper in air.

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(f) A student wished to try the reaction between metal D and hydrochloric acid. Explain why you should not
carry out this reaction.

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