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FIRST PERIODICAL EXAM

GRADE 12 – GENERAL CHEMISTRY 1

Name: _____________________________________ Grade & Section: _______________ Teacher: Mr.Reyniel S.Cereza

I. Multiple Choice. Circle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.
1. What are included in the study of chemistry?
A. changes that matter undergo C. properties of matter
B. composition of matter D, all of the above
2.Which of the following illustrates the importance of chemistry to daily life?
A. It helps us understand gravitational force.
B. It explains the existence of day and night.
C. It explains the difference between animal and plant cells.
D. It gives us ideas on the composition of the materials we use.
3. Why is chemistry referred to as the central science?
A. Historically, it is the first science.
B. It has the greatest number of specializations.
C. It is essential in the study of all other fields of science.
D. There are more chemists than any other scientists in other fields.
4. What should a chemist researcher do with the gathered data before making a conclusion?
A. Make observations.
B. Set up an experiment.
C. Analyze and interpret the data.
D. Manipulate the data to fit the theoretical value.
5. If scientists in general, and chemists in particular, are the people who study and explain scientific phenomena, who are
behind the scientific production of things for mankind's specific needs and wants?
A. architects C. political leaders
B. entrepreneurs D. technologists
6. How many significant figures are in 0.000001 km?
A.1 C.6
B.5 D.7
7. How many significant figures are in 1.200 g?
A.1 C.3
B.2 D.4
8. A student is asked to show his/her answer of 4.6392 cm with three significant figures. Which of the following is correct?
A. 4.640 cm C. 4.63cm
B. 4.64 cm D. 4.630cm
9. How can the number 165,982 mg be shown with two significant figures?
A.160,000 mg C.165,900mg
B. 165,000mg D. 170,000mg
10. What is the sum of the numbers 12.319 g, 1.2976 g, and 115.47 g with the correct number of significant figures?
A. 129.0866 g C. 129.09g
B. 129.087 g D.129.1g

I. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the answers based on the description / definitions. (1 pt. each).
____________1. Smaller particles within the atom.
____________2. The identity and arrangement of subatomic particles in the atom.
____________3. The spontaneous emission of radiation in the form of particles or high energy photons resulting from a nuclear reaction.
____________4.He investigated the newly discovered x-rays in 1896.
____________5. Rays that are reflected particles because they have mass.
____________6.Protons and neutrons makes up the _________ of an atom.
____________7. Molecules that consist of two atoms.
____________8.He proposed the laws of Atomic Theory.
____________9.She discovered the Polonium and Radium and the mother of radioactivity
____________10. Rays that have no detectible charge or mass.
II. MATCHING TYPE: Match Column A with Column B. Write the CAPITAL LETTER of your answer on the space provided.
A B
____________1. metals A. proton
____________2. positively charged B. conductor
____________3. electrode C. electron
____________4. J.J. Thomson D. cation
____________5.non-metals E. gain electrons
____________6. E. Rutherfor F. mass number
____________7. atomic mass G. lose electrons
____________8.ion H. anode
____________9.J. Chadwick I. semiconductor
____________10. negatively charged J. neutron

III. Fill in the table. 10pts.

Name of Element Proton Neutron Mass number Atomic number Electron Symbol

Os

47

Cadmium

Po

24

IV. ENUMERATION:

1-3 Law of Matter

5-10 Importance of Chemistry

VII.PROBLEM SOLVING: NO ERASURE. Solve the following. GRESA FORMAT. 5pts. each

1. Joshua uses his thermometer and finds the boiling point of ethyl alcohol to be 78 C. He looks in a reference book and finds
that the actual boiling point of ethyl alcohol is 85C. What is his percent error?

2. The density of water at 4 C is known to be 2.00 g/mL. Kayla experimentally found the density of water to be 3.075 g/mL. What
is her percent error?
Student Mass of Cylinder (g) Average Mass and
Name Density of Cylinder
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 (g)
Mikaela 47.13 47.94 46.83 47.47
Gabriela 47.45 47.39 47.42 47.41

Rafaela 47.95 47.91 47.89 47.93

List two possible reason for reporting precise but in accurate measurements: