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PRETEST ON GAS LAWS

Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. If two variables are inversely proportional, what happens to the value of one as the value
of the other increases?
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Stay the same
d. Either increase or decrease
2. If two variables are directly proportional, what happens to the value of one as the value of
the other increases?
a. Increase
b. Decrease
c. Stay the same
d. Either increase or decrease
3. Identify the units most commonly used for Pressure, Volume, and Temperature.
a. Pressure: kPa, Volume: L, Temperature: °C
b. Pressure: Pa, Volume: L, Temperature: K
c. Pressure: atm, Volume: mL, Temperature: K
d. Pressure: atm, Volume: L, Temperature: K
4. If temperature is constant, the relationship between pressure and volume is ______.
a. directly proportional
b. inversely proportional
c. neither a and b
d. both a and b
5. If pressure is constant, the relationship between temperature and volume is ______.
a. directly proportional
b. inversely proportional
c. neither a and b
d. both a and b.
6. One way to increase pressure on a gas is to _______.
a. decrease temperature
b. increase temperature
c. increase the number of gas particles
d. lower the kinetic energy of the gas molecules
7. How do gas particles respond to an increase in volume?
a. Increase in kinetic energy and decrease in temperature
b. decrease in kinetic energy and decrease in pressure
 c. increase in temperature and increase in pressure
d. increase in kinetic energy and increase in temperature
8. If pressure of a gas is increased and its volume remains constant, what will happen to its
temperature?
a. increase
b. decrease
c. stay the same
d. either increase or decrease
9. If a gases volume is decreased and pressure is constant, its temperature will _______.
a. increase
b. decrease
c. remain the same
d. none of the above
10. If the temperature of a gas remains constant but pressure is decreased, the volume will
______.
a. increase
b. decrease
c. remain the same
d. none of the above
11. Also known as Law of Volumes.
a. Charles’s Law
b. Boyle’s Law
c. Gay-Lussac’s Law
d. Ideal Gas Law
12. All are real-life examples of the Gay-Lussac’s Law, EXCEPT;
a. Pressure cooker
b. Hot air balloon
c. The human lungs
d. Pressurized aerosol cans
13. The following are real-life examples of Charles’s Law, EXCEPT;
a. The human lungs
b. Pingpong ball with rackets
c. Bread and knife
d. Aerosol cans
14. Which Gas Law is involved when a balloon pops after being sat on?
a. Charles’s Law
b. Boyle’s Law
c. Gay-Lussac’s Law
d. None of the above
15. Gas pressure is caused by:
a. Gas molecules heating up
b. Gas molecules reacting with other gas molecules
c. Gas molecules hitting the walls of a container
d. Gas molecules hitting other gas molecules
16. What is the temperature of a gas proportional to?
a. The material the container is made from
 b. The kinetic energy of its molecules
c. The size of its particles
d. The volume of the container
17. What is the most commonly used temperature scale?
a. Fahrenheit
b. Kelvin
c. Celsius
d. All of the above
18. What is the most commonly used pressure scale?
a. mmHg
b. Pa
c. Atm
d. kPa
19. Assuming that the temperature remains constant. How can you increase the pressure of a
gas?
a. Increase the container volume
b. Add more molecules of the gas
c. Decrease the container volume
d. None of the above
20. According to Charles’s Law, if you have a balloon inside a car at noon during a hot
summer day, the balloon molecules inside will increase in pressure?
a. True, because the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional to its
Kelvin temperature.
b. False, because the pressure is constant in Charles’s Law.
c. False, because the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional to its
pressure.
d. Neither true or false
21. States Boyle’s Law in words.
a. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely
proportional to its pressure at constant temperature.
b. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional to
its Kelvin temperature at constant pressure.
c. This law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional
to its Kelvin temperature at constant volume.
d. This law relates the number of particles to pressure, temperature, and volume.
22. States Charles’s Law in words.
a. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is directly
proportional to its Kelvin temperature at constant pressure.
b. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional
to its pressure at constant temperature.
c. This law relates the number of particles to pressure, temperature, and volume.
d. This law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional
to its Kelvin temperature at constant volume.
23. State Gay-Lussac’s Law in words.
 a. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional
to its pressure at constant temperature.
b. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional to
its Kelvin temperature at constant pressure.
c. This law relates the number of particles to pressure, temperature, and volume.
d. This law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is directly
proportional to its Kelvin temperature at constant volume.
24. State Ideal Gas Law in words.
a. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional
to its pressure at constant temperature.
b. This law states that the volume of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional to
its Kelvin temperature at constant pressure.
c. This law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional
to its Kelvin temperature at constant volume.
d. This law relates the number of particles to pressure, temperature, and
volume.
25. Which statement is FALSE?
a. The density of a gas is constant as long as its temperature remains constant.
b. Gases can be expanded without limit.
c. Gases diffuse into each other and mix almost immediately when you put into the
same container
d. Pressure must be exerted on a sample of a gas in order to confine it.
26. A diver blows a 0.75-L air bubble 10 m under water. As it rises to the surface, the
pressure goes from 2.25 atm to 1.03 atm. What will be the volume of air in the bubble at
the surface?
a. 0.58 L
b. 1.6 L
c. 2.0 L
d. 2.58 L
27. A gas at 89°C occupies a volume of 0.67 L. At what Celsius temperature will the volume
increase to 1.12 L?
a. 136.88°C
b. 149.78°C
c. 250.10°C
d. 422.78°C
28. The pressure of the oxygen gas inside a canister is 5.00 atm at 25.0°C. The canister is
located at a camp high on Mount Everest. If the temperature there falls to -10.0°C, what
is the new pressure inside the canister?
a. 1.49 atm
b. 1.96 atm
 c. 2.58 atm
d. 4.41 atm
29. The pressure in an automobile tire is 1.88 atm at 25.0°C. What will be the pressure if the
temperature increases to 37.0°C?
a. 1.49 atm
b. 1.96 atm
c. 2.58 atm
d. 4.41 atm
30. A sample of air in a syringe exerts a pressure of 1.02 atm at 22.0°C. The syringe is placed
in a boiling-water bath at 100.0°C. The pressure is increased to 1.23 atm by pushing the
plunger in, which reduces the volume to 0.224 mL. What was the initial volume?
a. 2.00 x 10-4 L
b. 2.11 x 10-4 L
c. 2.14 x 10-4 L
d. 3.14 x 10-4 L

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