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Test cause and evidence
See how orbitals share energy
Explain the periodic-table layout
Map the atmosphere
Recognize hydrocarbons
Distinguish petrochemicals
Identify the chemical hazards in the lab in context of the experiment being conducted.
Compare protons, neutrons, and electrons
Recognize the four periodic blocks
Explain what changes air quality
Recognize alkanes
Identify petrochemical raw materials
Test that the equipment is working properly without any potential risk of injury before conducting an experiment.
Connect atomic number to proton number
Read periods as occupied energy levels
Trace air pollutants and their effects
Use functional groups
Follow petroleum refining
Ensure that workspace for conducting the experiment is not crowded with apparatus as to be hazardous.
Connect mass number to nucleon number
Infer levels and valence electrons
Measure and monitor air quality
Read organic formulae
Explain petrochemical processing
Ensure that safe distance is kept at all times from otherinvestigators who may be handling lab apparatus.
Predict particle paths in an electric field
Locate metals and nonmetals
Connect human activity to atmospheric change
Name simple organic compounds
Recognize major petrochemicals
Identify what potential bodily harm could occur from physical, chemical, biological and safety hazards in the context of the experiment being conducted.
Count particles in atoms and ions
Follow periodic trends
Explain atmospheric reactions
Find molecular and empirical formulae
Compare energy measures
Recognise that it is always better to ask for help from the lab instructor when unsure of how to use new apparatus.
Track atomic-size trends
Link metallic behavior to valence electrons
Use air-quality controls
Use organic-reaction vocabulary
Explain fossil fuels
Identify the proper waste disposal system for chemicals being used.
Write configurations from proton numbers
Move between position and configuration
Interpret air-quality data
Explain catenation
Explain nuclear fission and fusion
Set up apparatus following instructions given in written ordiagrammatic form.
Use the language of electron arrangement
Write sodium and magnesium reactions
Connect air quality and health
Recognize organic mechanisms
Explain solar energy
Use apparatus to collect an appropriate quantity of data
Use quantum numbers to place electrons
Explain oxidation numbers in oxides and chlorides
Evaluate pollution health risks
Draw electron movement
Connect energy use to climate
Make observations, including subtle differences in colour, solubility or quantity of materials
Count orbitals and electron capacity
Predict oxide reactions with water
Reduce air pollution
Use the term planar
Evaluate energy choices
Make measurements using pipettes, burettes, measuring cylinders, thermometers and other common laboratory apparatus.
Build configurations with three rules
Explain hydroxide acid-base behavior
Test air-quality hypotheses
Classify structural isomers
Decide how many tests or observations to perform
Order subshells by energy
Explain chloride reactions with water
Explain global air problems
Classify hydrocarbons
Identify where repeated readings or observations are appropriate
Read every level in a configuration
Link periodic trends to bonding
Discuss air-quality decisions
Name alkanes and cycloalkanes
Replicate readings or observations as necessary, including where an anomaly is suspected
Explain energy and electron repulsion
Infer bonding from properties
Classify water pollution
Explain alkane shapes
Identify where confirmatory tests are appropriate and the nature of such tests
Find configurations of charged atoms
Predict properties within a group
Recognize common water pollutants
Explain alkane reactivity
Select reagents to distinguish between given ions.
Link electron arrangement to new devices
Identify an unknown element
Trace water pollution impacts
Describe radical-chain steps
Carry out procedures using simple apparatus, in situations where the method may not be familiar to the candidate
Recognize s, p, and d orbital shapes
Compare Group 1 and 17 energy trends
Explain water treatment
Follow radical substitution
Describe an acid–base titration to include the use of a: a. burette b. volumetric pipette c. suitable indicator
Identify a free radical
Compare halogen colors and volatility
Use water-protection rules
Spot organic redox reactions
Describe how to identify the endpoint of a titration using an indicator
Explain what controls ionization energy
Compare halogen bond strength
Assess human pressure on water
Name alkenes
Describe tests to identify the anions: a. CO 3 2- : By reaction with dilute acid and then testing for carbon dioxide gas. b. Cl1- / Br1- / I1- : By acidifying with dilute nitric acid then adding aqueous silver nitrate. c. NO3 1- : By reduction with aluminum foil and aqueous sodium hydroxide and then testing for ammonia gas. d. SO4 2- : By acidifying with dilute nitric acid then adding aqueous barium nitrate. e. SO3 2- : By reaction with acidified aqueous potassium manganate(VII).
Explain ionization-energy trends
Link halogen volatility to forces
Plan water conservation
Explain ethene’s shape
Describe tests using aqueous sodium hydroxide and aqueous ammonia to identify the aqueous cations: a) aluminum, Al3+ b) ammonium, NH4 1+ c) calcium, Ca2+ d) chromium(III), Cr3+ e) copper(II), Cu2+ f) iron(II), Fe2+ g) iron(III), Fe3+ h) zinc, Zn2+
Read successive ionization energies
Compare halogen oxidizing power
Link water chemistry to quality
Relate alkene structure to reactivity
Record raw readings of a quantity to the same degree of precision and observations to the same level of detail.
Explain factors behind ionization energy
Compare halogen reactions with hydrogen
Compare types of isomerism
Show working in calculations and key steps in reasoning.
Infer configurations from ionization data
Explain hydrogen-halide stability
Make ethene by elimination
Use the correct number of significant figures for calculated quantities.
Locate an element from ionization data
Compare halide reducing power
Recognize ethene reactions
Draw an appropriate table in advance of taking readings or making observations and record all data in the table.
Use mass spectrometry to find relative mass
Explain halide tests with reagents
Explain conjugated double bonds
Use the appropriate presentation method to produce a clear presentation of the data.
Calculate isotope-based atomic masses
Use ammonia to distinguish silver halides
Name alkenes with IUPAC
Plot appropriate variables on appropriate, clearly labelled x- and y-axes with carefully chosen scales.
Explain chlorine disproportionation
Explain electrophilic addition
Draw straight lines or smooth curves of best fit to show the trend of a graph.
Define electronegativity
Explain chlorine water purification
Explain Markovnikov addition
Describe the patterns and trends shown by data in tables and graphs.
Explain what changes electronegativity
Explain nitrogen’s low reactivity
Classify halogenoalkanes
Describe and summarize the key points of a set of observations.
Follow electronegativity trends
Explain ammonia’s basicity
Plan halogenoalkane synthesis
Determine the gradient of a straight-line graph and extrapolate the line of a graph.
Use electronegativity to predict bonds
Build the ammonium ion
Follow halogenoalkane substitution
Draw conclusions from an experiment, giving an outline description of the main features of the data, considering whether experimental data support a given hypothesis, and making further predictions.
See how hybrid orbitals make bonds
Release ammonia from ammonium salts
Make an alkene by elimination
Draw conclusions from interpretations of observations, data and calculated values.
Relate bond strength to reactivity
Track nitrogen oxides and exhaust cleanup
Plan alcohol preparation
Make scientific explanations of data, observations and conclusions that they have described.
Sketch molecular shapes with VSEPR
Explain nitrogen oxides in smog
Convert alcohols to halogenoalkanes
Analyse intrinsic errors in measuring device.
Predict shapes and angles
Distinguish nitrification and denitrification
React hydroxy compounds with sodium
Describe systematic errors.
Explain hybridization types
Explain sulfur’s low reactivity
Oxidize alcohols selectively
Identify the most significant sources of error in an experiment
Explain valence-bond theory
Compare sulfur oxidation states
Dehydrate alcohols to alkenes
State the uncertainty in a quantitative measurement and express such uncertainty in a measurement as an actual or percentage error
Connect molecular shape to drug design
Describe sulfuric acid and its uses
Make esters
Analyse the limitations of the experimental design and propose appropriate modifications that will improve the accuracy of the experiment.
Identify the key ideas in MOT
Follow sulfur reactions
Classify alcohols
Evaluate the validity of the methods used
Explain why oxygen is paramagnetic
Connect sulfur compounds to uses
Use an alcohol oxidation test
Explain improvements or extensions to the methods used.
Calculate bond order
Recognize the iodoform group
Apply scientific language effectively.
Compare van der Waals forces
Compare alcohol and water acidity
Document the work of others and sources of information used
Recognize hydrogen-bonding groups
Make aldehydes and ketones
Suggest ways in which to extend the investigation to answer a new question.
Explain water’s unusual behavior
React aldehydes and ketones
Suggest alternate chemicals in experimental design which contribute to green chemistry.
Explain polarity and dipoles
Draw cyanide addition
Compare bond and intermolecular strengths
Test for carbonyl compounds
Spot expanded octets in ions
Distinguish aldehydes and ketones
Follow dative-bond formation
Recognize the methyl-carbonyl group
Translate equations into measurable amounts
Make carboxylic acids
Find the limiting reagent
Use carboxylic-acid reactions
Calculate product and excess reagent
Make esters by condensation
Calculate reaction yields
Hydrolyze esters
Know a mole of gas at STP
Define amines
Solve gas-volume mole problems
Compare primary and secondary amines
Find molar mass from gas density
Prepare primary and secondary amines
Convert between moles and measurements
Use phenylamine and azo compounds
Solve full stoichiometry problems
Plan organic synthesis
See why stoichiometry matters in medicine
Identify functional groups by reactions
Explain photovoltaic cells
Predict functional-group behavior
Model liquid behavior
Design a multistep synthesis
Identify intermolecular forces
Analyze a synthetic route
Compare three intermolecular forces
Use retrosynthesis
Describe liquid properties
Use hydrogen bonds to explain water
Define molar heats of phase change
Connect phase-change heat to particles
Explain heat of fusion in ice studies
Describe how gases behave
Recognize liquid crystals in daily life
Compare liquid crystals with other states
Model solid behavior
Tell amorphous from crystalline solids
Describe crystal properties
Classify heat changes in reactions
Read an enthalpy pathway diagram
Use key enthalpy terms
Link bonds to energy transfer
Calculate reaction enthalpy from bond energies
Compare exact and average bond energies
Calculate enthalpy from experiments
Define advanced enthalpy terms
Use advanced enthalpy terms
Explain electron-affinity trends
Build a Born-Haber cycle
Calculate with Born-Haber cycles
Explain lattice-energy size
Connect hydration and solution enthalpies
Build a solution-energy cycle
Calculate with energy cycles
Explain hydration-enthalpy trends
Define entropy
Predict the sign of entropy change
Calculate reaction entropy
Understand heat as energy
Link temperature to particle motion
Apply energy conservation
Use standard energy conditions
Explain Hess’s Law
Use Hess’s Law in multistep reactions
Compare breaking and forming bonds
Understand Gibbs free energy
Solve Gibbs-energy problems
Link food energy to enthalpy
Define reaction rate and rate constant
Calculate a reaction rate
Understand activation energy
Use Boltzmann curves to explain temperature
Explain how catalysts speed reactions
Read catalyzed pathway diagrams
Connect Gibbs energy to feasibility
Use rate equations
Calculate a rate constant
Suggest a rate-consistent mechanism
Explain temperature effects on rates
Describe reversible reactions and equilibrium
Define physical-state equilibrium
Recognize equilibrium conditions
Picture particles at equilibrium
Write a Kc expression
Relate equilibrium constants
Write equilibrium expressions in different forms
Separate microscopic and macroscopic views
Explain visible shifts through particle changes
Predict temperature effects on Kc
Apply Le Chatelier’s Principle
Apply equilibrium to industry
Optimize industrial equilibria
Explain salt hydrolysis
Define conjugate acid-base pairs
Identify conjugate pairs in reactions
Apply conjugate pairs to salt hydrolysis
Use pH and equilibrium constants
Calculate acid and alkali pH
Distinguish Lewis acids and bases
Calculate buffer pH
Use solubility-product ideas
Write a Ksp expression
Calculate Ksp and concentrations
Explain the common-ion effect
Calculate common-ion problems
Explain salt hydrolysis
Find weak-acid hydrogen-ion concentration
Find ions in slightly soluble salts
Calculate titration strength
Choose an acid-base indicator