Chemistry · Unit 1 · Paper 3

Atomic Structure & Properties unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 21 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 3” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 37 min 34 points0/17 attempted

Average atomic mass

Photon energy

Shielding

Electronegativity

Molar mass

Isotopes

Ionic radius

Why the first ionization energy of oxygen is below nitrogen

Mole and Avogadro's number

Empirical vs molecular formula

Percent composition

Valence electrons

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Absorption and emission spectra

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Mass spectrometry

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Effective nuclear charge (Zeff)

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Ionization energy trend

3 pts

Free response

10 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

A 0.750 g sample of impure calcium carbonate is treated with excess hydrochloric acid: CaCO₃(s) + 2 HCl(aq) → CaCl₂(aq) + H₂O(l) + CO₂(g). The CO₂ produced is collected over water at 25 °C, where the total pressure is 755 torr and the collected volume is 155 mL. The vapor pressure of water at 25 °C is 23.8 torr.

Calculate the partial pressure of CO₂ in atmospheres.

Calculate the number of moles of CO₂ collected.

Calculate the mass percent of CaCO₃ in the original sample.

Explain the direction in which the calculated mass percent would be biased if the student forgot to subtract the water vapor pressure.

Describe one experimental observation that would confirm the HCl was truly present in excess.