THE EMIRATES NATIONAL SCHOOL-SHARJAH
COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS
                             CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EQUATIONS
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1.    Trupti mixed one teaspoon of baking soda in 500 g of cake mixture. She kept the          2
      mixture aside for 5 minutes. Geeta mixed one teaspoon of baking powder in 500 g of
      the same cake mixture. She also kept the mixture aside for 5 minutes. She then
      baked the two cakes together in the same oven. Whose cake is likely to rise higher?
      Justify your answer.
2.    While cooking in an aluminum vessel, Sudeshna burned some food till all that             2
      was left was a completely charred and black residue. She just left the
      blackened vessel heating on the stove. After an hour she found that the vessel
      was completely clean, with no trace of any blackness. (a) Write a chemical
      equation to explain what happened to the charred, black residue that made it
      disappear. (b) Name the type of reaction referred to in (a).
3.    A white powder is added to dilute hydrochloric acid. A colorless gas is evolved, and a   2
      colorless solution is formed. Identify the white powder and write a balanced
      chemical equation.
4.    Silver articles become black after some time when exposed to air. However, when          2
      rubbed, they regain their shine.
      a) Name the chemical phenomenon involved in the observation.
      b) Write the chemical equation for the reaction responsible for the black coating.
5.    A metal X is found to react with dilute hydrochloric acid to liberate hydrogen           2
      gas but does not react with cold water. Another metal Y does not react with
      dilute acid.
      a) Arrange X, Y, and hydrogen in the reactivity series.
      b) Which type of chemical reaction occurs between metal X and hydrochloric
      acid?