ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS SET – 1
CHAPTER – 1
CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EQUATIONS
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. How are chemical reactions expressed in the shortest way?
2. What is the type of reaction in which the reactant gives simpler products?
3. What is the type of reaction in which two or more reactants combine to a give a single
product?
4. In which type of reaction does an exchange of partners take place?
5. Why are chemical equations balanced?
6. What symbol is used to indicate a solution made in water?
7. What type of reaction does occur during the digestion of food inside our body?
8. What type of reaction is represented by the following equation?
CaCO3 → CaO + CO2
9. What type of reaction does occur when silver bromide is exposed to sunlight?
10. A solution of a substance is used for white washing. Name the substance with its
formula.
11. Name the type of reaction which is represented by the following equations:
Fe2O3 + 2Al → Al2O3 + 2Fe
12. Balance the following equation using state symbols: Fe + HCl → FeCl2 + H2.
13. Express the following statement in the form of a balanced chemical equation: “Sodium
reacts with water to form sodium hydroxide and hydrogen”.
14. Write the balanced chemical equation for the reaction that occurs between aluminium
hydroxide and sulphuric acid forming aluminium sulphate and water.
15. What type of reaction does occur when ammonia is allowed to react with hydrogen
chloride?
16. Name the type of reaction involved when a zinc plate is dipped in a solution of copper
sulphate?
17. In the reaction, CuO(s) + H2(g) → Cu(s) + H2O(l). Pick out the following:
(i) the substance which is oxidised
(ii) the substance which is reduced
(iii) the oxidizing agent
(iv) the reducing agent
18. What chemical reaction is involved in the corrosion of iron?
19. Aluminum metal when burnt in air forms aluminium oxide. Write the balanced chemical
equation for the reaction.
20. Is the reaction represented by the following reaction a displacement reaction?
2KI + Cl2 → 2KCl + I2
21. Express the following reaction in the form of a balanced chemical equation: “When a
strip of copper is dipped in a solution of silver nitrate, silver metal is precipitated and a
solution of copper nitrate is produced.”
22. Write the following equation in a balanced form?
NH3 + O2 → N2 + 2H2O
23. What is the process called in which a substance is converted into a new substance?
24. Name the gas evolved when a magnesium ribbon is dropped into dilute sulphuric acid?
25. Give an example of a double displacement reaction.
26. Is copper more reactive than iron? Give the equation of the reaction in support of your
answer?
27. Can a combustion reaction be a redox reaction?
28. Can a double displacement reaction be a redox reaction?
29. State one characteristics of the chemical reaction when lemon juice is added gradually to
potassium permanganate solution?
30. Which gas does evolve when dilute HCl is added to sodium carbonate?
31. Why is photochemical reaction considered an endothermic reaction?
32. Which term is applied for the process in which unpleasant smell and taste develop in
foods containing fats and oils?
33. What are the substances called which are added to foods containing fats and oils to
protect them from becoming rancid?
34. Why are potato chips packaged in nitrogen?
35. In the refining of silver, silver is obtained from silver nitrate by using copper metal. Write
down the reaction involved?
36. A shiny brown coloured element when heated in air becomes black. Name the element
and the black coloured substance so formed.
37. Name the substance which is oxidised in the following reaction:
H2S + Cl2 → 2HCl + S
38. Why are all decomposition reactions endothermic?
39. Is the decomposition of vegetable matter into compost an exothermic reaction?
40. Why is photosynthesis an endothermic reaction?
41. Balance the following equation:
(i) MNO2 + HCl → MNCl2 + Cl2 + H2O
(ii) Na + O2 → Na2O
(iii) H2O2 → H2O + O2
(iv) Mg(OH)2 + HCl → MgCl2 + H2O
(v) Fe + O2 → Fe2O3
(vi) Al(OH)3 → Al2O3 + H2O
(vii) NH3 + CuO → Cu + N2 + H2O
(viii) Al2(SO4)3 + NaOH → Al(OH)3 + Na2SO4
(ix) HNO3 + Ca(OH)2 → Ca(NO3)2 + H2O
(x) NaOH + H2SO4 → Na2SO4 + H2O
(xi) BaCl2 + H2SO4 → BaSO4 + HCl
(xii) Calcium hydroxide + Carbon dioxide → Calcium carbonate + Water
(xiii) Aluminium + Copper chloride → Aluminium chloride + Copper
(xiv) Calcium + Water → Calcium hydroxide + Hydrogen
(xv) Sulphur dioxide + Oxygen → Sulphur trioxide
(xvi) MnO2 + HCl → MnCl2 + Cl2 + H2O
(xvii) Zn + HCl → ZnCl2