Practice Test

Question 1

Which statement describes an extensive property of matter?

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A: It changes with the amount of sample that is present.

Question 2

Which statement describes effusion?

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B: It occurs when a gas passes through a tiny hole.

Question 3

When a strip of magnesium metal is touched to a flame, a bright light and a whitish substance are produced. Why is the burning of magnesium considered a chemical change?

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A: because a new substance is formed

Question 4

Why do amorphous solids not have a long-range order in the arrangement of their particles?

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D: Their formation involves very rapid cooling.

Question 5

When the process of condensation occurs, the kinetic energy of particles

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D: is insufficient to overcome intermolecular forces.

Question 6

Which best characterizes a crystal?

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D: a dense substance that is hard and incompressible

Question 7

Which is a postulate of the kinetic-molecular theory?

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D: Gas particles have a small volume relative to the spaces between them.

Question 8

The gas and liquid are at

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A: equilibrium.

Question 9

Which best describes the process that arrow 1 represents?

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B: Molecules are speeding up during boiling.

Question 10

Which statement best describes the process that the diagrams show?

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D: A solid gains kinetic energy to become a liquid and then becomes a gas.

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