Question Paper: Acids, Bases, and Salts
Duration: 1 Hour Total Marks: 25
1. When fresh milk is changed into curd, will its pH value increase or decrease? Why? (1 mark)
2. What happens chemically when quick lime is added to water? (1 mark)
3. How does the flow of acid rainwater into a river make the survival of aquatic life in the river
difficult? (1 mark)
4. What would be the color of litmus in a solution of sodium carbonate? (1 mark)
5. Why does 1 M HCl solution have a higher concentration of H+ ions than 1 M CH3 COOH
solution? (1 mark)
6. How will you test for a gas which is liberated when HCl reacts with an active metal? (2
marks)
7. What is baking powder? How does it make the cake soft and spongy? (2 marks)
8. Give the Arrhenius definition of an acid and a base. (2 marks)
9. Name the gas evolved when dilute HCl reacts with sodium hydrogen carbonate. How is it
recognized? (2 marks)
10. Why does tooth decay occur? (2 marks)
11. Name the products obtained when sodium hydrogen carbonate is heated. Write the chemical
equation for the same. (2 marks)
12. Write the chemical formula of washing soda and baking soda. Which one of these two is an
ingredient of antacids? How does it provide relief in stomachache? (2 marks)
13. What do you mean by water of crystallization of a substance? Describe an activity to show
that blue copper sulfate crystals contain water of crystallization. (2 marks)
14. How can washing soda be obtained from baking soda? Name an industrial use of washing soda
other than washing clothes. (2 marks)
15. Why acids are not stored in metal containers? (2 mark)