IIP International School

Academic Year 2024 – 2025

Semester 2 50
Year 9 – Science (Chemistry)
Worksheet – 2

Name _______________________________ Class _________________

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. Ionic compounds form ___________________ , which have very high melting points
due to the strong electrostatic forces between opposite-charged ions.

2. Simple covalent molecules have low melting points because the forces between
them are ___________________________________ .

3. ___________________ are giant covalent structures with atoms bonded by strong

covalent bonds.

4. Ionic compounds conduct electricity when _______________________ or

__________ because the ions become free to move and carry charge.

5. Unlike ionic compounds, simple covalent molecules __________ conduct electricity.

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II. Short Questions

1. Magnesium will displace zinc from zinc sulfate solution.
Write the word equation for this reaction.
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2. A gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid. Name the gas including its formula.
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III. Long Questions

1. Ruby investigates the reaction between magnesium and different acids.
She adds a 1cm length of magnesium to four different acids.
She measures the time it takes for all the magnesium to react.
The table shows her results.
 (a) What is missing from Ruby’s results table?
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(b) Which acid took the most time to react?
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(c) Ruby wants to display her results in a different way.
Which would be the best way to display the results?
Circle the correct answer.

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(d) Ruby thinks the result for hydrochloric acid is wrong.

What should she do to check her result?
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2. Aren investigates the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide solution into water and
oxygen gas. The reaction is very slow on its own. She wants to find out if manganese
dioxide (MnO2) is a catalyst for the reaction. She does one reaction with MnO2 being
added to 20 ml of 6% H2O2 and one without MnO2. She measures the time it takes for
the reaction to finish (the reaction time). Here is her results table.
Reaction mixture Reaction time (seconds)
H2O2 only 300
H2O2 + MnO2 40

(a) Many factors affect the rate of reaction.

Write down three variables that must be controlled in this investigation.
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(b) Use the findings to decide whether MnO2 acts as a catalyst or not for the
reaction.
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 (c) For a substance to be a catalyst, it must have two characteristics.
What are they?
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3. Salts can be made by reacting metals or metal compounds with acids.

(a) Complete these sentences about making salts.
i. When metals react with acids, the products are a salt and -----------------.
ii. When metal oxides react with acids, the products are a salt and ------------------.
iii. When metal hydroxides react with acids, the products are a salt and ---------------- .
iv. When metal carbonates react with acids, the products are a salt,
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(b) Justin Chan reacts metal compounds with acids to make three different salts.
The table shows the metal compounds and the salts he makes.
Complete the table to show the acids he uses in each reaction.

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4. Clara and Riko want to make the salt copper sulfate.

They react copper oxide with an acid.
(a) (i) Write the word equation for this reaction.
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(ii) What type of reaction takes place? Circle the correct reaction.

Burning
Condensation
Fermentation
Neutralisation
Oxidation [1]

(b) The sentences A–F describe the method they use.

They are in the wrong order.
 A. The filtrate is left for several days for the crystals to grow.
B. The filtrate is heated until the first crystals appear.
C. The reaction mixture is filtered to remove the excess copper oxide.
D. Excess copper oxide is added to the acid.
E. The filtrate is put into an evaporating dish.
F. The reaction mixture is heated carefully for three minutes.

Fill in the boxes to show the correct order.

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(c) Look at sentence F.
Write down one safety precaution Aiko and Mike should obey.
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5. Helen, Stephen and Alex investigate the rate of reaction between hydrochloric acid
and calcium carbonate. The diagram shows the apparatus they use.

• They add 1 g of calcium carbonate to 25 cm3 of hydrochloric acid.

• They measure the volume of gas collected in 2 minutes.
• They then repeat the method using different concentrations of acid.
The table shows their results.
(a) As the concentration of the acid increases, the rate of reaction increases.
(i) Explain how the results show this?
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(ii) Explain why the rate of reaction increases as the concentration of acid increases.
Use ideas about particles and collisions in your answer.
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(b) Helen tells Stephen and Alex that the results are not reliable.
How could they make the results more reliable?
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6. Leon investigates displacement reactions.

(a) He adds iron to copper sulfate solution in a test-tube. A reaction takes place.
Write the word equation for this reaction.
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(b) He repeats his method with some other metals and metal salt solutions.
Here are his results.

Put these metals in order of reactivity, starting with the most reactive.
Copper iron zinc

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 (c) Leon notices the test-tube gets warm when a reaction takes place.
What name describes a reaction that gives out heat?
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(d) His teacher suggests that he change his experiment to find out which reaction
gives out the most heat.
Describe four variables that he needs to keep the same and the variable that he
measures.
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7. The diagram shows the electron transfer between two atoms, forming ions.
Identify the elements in the diagram by deducing their names and symbols based on
their electron arrangements.
Write the chemical name and formula of the compound formed including the type of
bond.

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Names:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Chemical name: ------------------------------------

Formula: ------------------------------------
Type of bond: ------------------------------------
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