Chemistry Summer Task
Chemistry Summer Task
Department
Foundations in
Chemistry
PREPARATION
FOR OCR
A-LEVEL
CHEMISTRY
Name: ________________________________
Summer work
A-level Chemistry Summer work
Please fill in this form and hand to your teacher in your first lesson.
What chemistry topics did you enjoy the What topics did you enjoy the least at
most at GCSE? GCSE?
Foundations in
Chemistry
PREPARATION
FOR OCR
A-LEVEL
CHEMISTRY
Name: ________________________________
Summer work
A-level Chemistry Reading list
Websites
chemguide.com
http://www.docbrown.info/page14/page14.htm
http://www.rsc.org/Education/SchoolStudents/index.asp
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/alevel/
http://a-levelchemistry.co.uk/
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/chemistry
http://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/chemistry-revision/a-level-ocr-a/
www.ocr.org.uk – For past papers. Both the current (from 2015) and legacy Chemistry A
papers. (Modules 1,2,3 = F321, Modules 1,2,4 = F322, Modules 1,2,6 = F324, Modules 1,2,5
= F325)
Books
Magazines
New Scientist
FOCUS
Chemistry today
National Geographic
YouTube
There are many relevant videos in YouTube, there are new channels be created every day.
Watch any but be aware of American terminology as it can sometimes differ!
Apps
References
The notes included in this study pack should be sufficient to help you
revise all these topics.
If you want further support, you may find the Chemistry
and Maths sections of the BBC GCSE Bitesize website
useful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z98jmp3
O=C=O
(a) (b) (c)
Au
(d) (e) (f)
N≡N
(g) (h) (i)
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Exercise 2: Formulae for elements
Find these elements on the Periodic Table (final page).
Write down the group (vertical column in the Periodic Table) to which
these elements belong and their formulae.
(a) Potassium
(b) Nitrogen
(c) Iodine
(e) Xenon
(f) Sulfur
(g) Fluorine
(h) Tin
(j) Phosphorus
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Exercise 3: Terminology quiz
Test your understanding of chemical terms.
Tick if the statement is right with all the terms used correctly.
Cross if either the statement is wrong or any terms are used incorrectly.
(i) O3 is a compound.
Mark /12
Exercise 4a: Formulae for ions
Write the formulae for the following ions, with the aid of a periodic table.
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Polyatomic ions
Polyatomic ions are groups of atoms covalently bonded together, that have
gained or lost electrons, forming negative or positive ions respectively.
Eg the carbonate ion, CO32- , has 1 carbon and 3 oxygen atoms held together
y covalent bonds. It has an overall charge of 2- because it has gained 2 e-s.
Learn by
heart!
You must learn the names and formulae of these ions!!
1+
ammonium
1-
hydroxide
2- 3-
carbonate phosphate
nitrate sulfate
NO3- SO42-
hydrogencarbonate
HCO3-
Note: polyatomic ions that contain oxygen as well as another element
have names that end –ate to denote the presence of the oxygen.
Formula: NaNO3
Formula: Al2(SO4)3
Exercise 4b: Ionic compounds
1. Write the formulae for the following compounds.
(a) lithium fluoride (i) ammonium sulfate
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Exercise 5: Covalent compounds
Write the formulae for the following compounds.
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Exercise 6a: Balancing equations
Balance these equations. Some of them are quite tricky, but there are no
mistakes in the questions!
(d) Fe + H 2O → Fe3O4 + H2
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Exercise 6b: Writing equations
Write balanced symbol equations for these reactions.
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Exercise 7a: Acid reactions
1. Fill in the blanks using the words given below – you may use each
word once, more than once or not at all.
carbonate chloride chlorine hydrogen
hydroxide nitrate nitride oxygen
salt sulfate sulfuric water
K2 + H2SO4 → K2SO4 + 2H
Mark /26
Exercise 7b: Acid equations
1. Complete the following word equations and re-write them as
balanced symbol equations.
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Mathematical skills
During your Chemistry course at Plymouth High School for Girls you will
be required to do some calculations. There is not a lot of mathematical
content in A Level Chemistry, but you mustn't be afraid of Maths either.
You need to be comfortable with:
significant figures
standard form
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(9) Standard form
(or scientific notation)
Chemists encounter numbers that can encompass an enormous range.
For example, there are 1 700 000 000 000 000 000 000 water molecules
in a drop of water, but a water molecule is approximately
0.000 000 000 15 m long (both values to 2 sig figs).
To make these numbers easier to write and to get a better sense of their
size, scientists use standard form or scientific notation to represent them.
The decimal point moves 5 places The decimal point lies here
to the left to arrive here in the in standard form.
longhand form.
so we can say there are 1.7 x 1021 water molecules in a drop of water and
(a) 123456
(b) 45062
(c) 0.058345
(d) 0.000259631
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Exercise 10: Rearranging algebraic equations
The following equations are all ones that you will eventually encounter at A Level
Chemistry. You don’t have to worry that you have not seen them before! However,
rearrange each equation for the given subject.
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(11) Maths quiz
This quiz makes use of the relationships between amount of
substance (moles) with mass, concentration and volumes of
chemicals. A few of you may have already encountered this at
GCSE, but you are not disadvantaged if you have not done
this before! All students should be able to solve this quiz as
all the formulae you need are provided below. You just need We dig Chemistry
to apply the skills practised in the last 3 exercises.
You will need to use the 3 formulae below to complete this exercise. You
may have to rearrange them as appropriate.
If you are keen to get ahead, learn these formulae before September! However,
you will be given the opportunity to learn this from scratch when you start your A
Level course.
Exercise 11: Maths quiz
You will need the formulae given on the previous page to answer these
questions.
Set out your workings for each answer clearly, so that any errors can be
identified more easily.
A. Find the amount, in mol, of NaCl in 10.0g of NaCl, given its molar
mass is 58.5 g mol-1. Give your answer to 3sf.
…………….………………………. mol
B. Find the volume, in cm3, of 4.246 x 10-4 mol of a gas, given the
molar volume is 24000 cm3 mol-1. Give your answer to 4sf.
…………….………………………. cm3
C. A 0.330 dm3 can of Coke contains 0.102 mol sucrose. What is the
concentration, in mol dm-3, of sucrose in this can of Coke?
a. Give your answer
to 3sf.
…………….………………………. mol
E. A chemist needs 1.25 x 10-3 mol of KMnO4 in an experiment. He has a
solution of KMnO4 of 2.25 x 10-2 mol dm-3 concentration.
i. Calculate the volume, in dm3, of this solution he needs to 3sf.
…………….………………………. dm3
…………….………………………. g mol-1
G. Sulfur dioxide emitted from industry produces sulfuric acid when it reacts with
rain water. A lake of volume 4.0 x 1014 dm3 was found to have a sulfuric acid
concentration of 5.2 x 10-5 mol dm-3. Calculate the amount, in mol, of H2SO4
present in this lake. Give your answer in standard form to 2sf.
…………….………………………. mol
H. In 2000, 1.94 x 108 mol of aspirin was consumed worldwide. The molar mass
of aspirin is 180 g mol-1. Calculate the mass, in tonnes, of aspirin consumed
in 2000. (1 tonne = 1 x 106 g)
Give your answer to 2sf.
…………….………………………. tonnes
I. The average concentration of NaCl in the oceans is 0.60 mol dm -3. The volume
of water in the oceans is approximately 1.3 x 109 km3. Find, to 2sf, the amount,
in mol, of NaCl found in the world’s oceans. (1 km 3 = 1 x 1012 dm3)
…………….………………………. mol
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Summary exercise
(12) Correct the errors
Here are the students’ accounts. Identify the errors and correct them.
There may be mistakes in the chemistry, the chemical formulae, the use
of words, the calculations, or the representation of the numbers. You may
assume that all balance readings are correct, as are statements in italics.
We weighed out 0.6g (2sf) copper(II) oxide (an excess) and added
enough sulfuric acid to react with most of the copper(II) oxide. We
filtered off the unreacted copper(II) oxide and obtained a clear solution of
copper(II) sulfide. We left the solution in an evaporating dish for a week
and obtained blue molecules of copper(II) sulfide. The mass of our
copper(II) sulfide was 1.55g (3sf) or 1.5g (2sf).
(b) Making potassium nitrate (Hint: You should find 7 errors.)
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Glossary
Use the information from this pack to write down the meaning of the
following terms and LEARN THEM!!!
Atom
Element
Molecule
Compound
Ion
Ionic bonding
Covalent bond
Acid
Salt
Base
Alkali
Effervescence
Precipitate