CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EQUATIONS

BOARD QUESTIONS

1. Which one is a chemical change – rusting

of iron or melting of iron? [2011]
2. What happens when quick lime is added
to water? [2012]
3. What happens when ZnCO3 is strongly
heated? What type of reaction is this?
[2012]
4. Write a balanced chemical equation:
[2012]
FeSO4 -------------> Fe2O3 + SO2 + SO3
5. Identify the reducing agent and oxidizing
agent in the following reaction: [2012]
ZnO + C ---------------> Zn + CO
6. What type of material is formed when
aqueous solution of sodium sulphate and
barium chloride is mixed. Give the balanced
 chemical equation involved. Name the type
of reaction it is? [2012]
7. Identify the type of chemical reaction
from the following equations: [2012]
a) CH4 + O2 --------------> CO2 + 2H2O
b) Pb(NO3)2 + KI ----------------> PbI2 +
KNO3
c) CaO + H2O ------------------> Ca(OH)2
d) CuSO4 + Zn ------------------> ZnSO4 +
Cu
8. 2 g of ferrous sulphate crystals are
heated in boiling tube. [2012]
a) What will be the colour of ferrous
sulphate crystals before and after heating?
b) Name the gases produced during
heating?
c) Write the chemical equation for the
reaction.
9. A student performed the experiment of
heating ferrous sulphate crystals in a boiling
tube. He smelt fumes of a pungent gas and
 same colour of ferrous sulphate disappears.
[2013]
a) Write the chemical formula of the
pungent gas.
b) Why does the colour of crystal
disappear?
c) Identify the nature of their chemical
reaction.
10. When hydrogen gas is passed over
heated copper (II) oxide, copper and steam
are formed. Write the balanced chemical
equation for the reaction and state:
[2014]
a) The substance oxidized.
b) The substance reduced in the reaction.
11. Name the substance oxidized and the
substance reduced. Also, identify the
oxidizing agent and reducing agent in the
following reactions:
[2015]
a) MnO2 + Al ----------------> Mn +
Al2O3
b) Fe2O3 + H2S ----------------> Fe + CO2
c) SO2 + H2S ----------------> S + H2O
12. In electrolysis of water, why is the
volume of gas collected over one electrode
double that of gas collected over the other
electrode? What type of reaction is this?
[2015]
13. (i) What is observed when a solution of
potassium iodide is added to a solution of
lead Nitrate taken in a test tune?
[2015]
(ii) What type of reaction is this?
(iii) Write a balanced chemical equation
to represent the same reaction.
14. Write a balanced chemical equation with
the symbols of the following reaction:
[2017]
Solution of barium chloride and sodium
sulphate in water reacts to give insoluble
 barium sulphate and the solution of sodium
chloride. Also, name the type of reaction.
15. Decomposition reactions requires
energy either in the form of heat or light or
electricity for breaking down the reactants.
Write one equation each for decomposition
reactions where energy is supplied in the
form of heat, light and electricity.
[2018]
16. In the reaction:
[2018]
MnO2 + HCl ----------------> MnCl2 + Cl2
+ H 2O
a) Name the compound oxidized and
reduced.
b) Define oxidation and reduction on the
basis of the given reaction.
17. 2 g of silver chloride is taken in a china
dish and is placed in sunlight for sometime.
What will be your observation in that case?
Write the chemical reaction involved in the
 form of a balanced chemical reaction.
Identify the type of chemical reaction.
[2019]
18. Identify the type of reaction taking place
in each of the following cases and write the
balanced chemical equation for the
reaction. [2019]
a) Zinc reacts with silver nitrate to produce
zinc nitrate and silver.
b) Potassium iodide reacts with lead nitrate
to produce potassium nitrate and lead
iodide.
19. Classify the following reactions into
different types. Also, balance the chemical
equations: [2019]
a) AgNO3 + NaCl -------------> AgCl
+ NaNO3
b) CaO + H2O --------------->
Ca(OH)2
c) KClO3 --------------> KCl + O2
d) Zn + CuSO4 ---------------> ZnSO4
+ Cu
20. When potassium iodide solution is
added to a solution of lead (II) nitrate in a
test tube, a precipitate is formed.
a) What is the colour of this precipitate?
Name the compound precipitated.
[2019]
b) List two types of reactions in which this
reaction can be placed.
21. List four observations that help us to
determine that chemical reaction has taken
place. [2012]
22. State the law which is followed in
balancing a chemical equation. [2012]
Balance the chemical equation: Fe +
H2O ------------> Fe3O4 + H2
23. What is observed when carbon dioxide
gas is passed through lime water: [2016]
a) For short duration?
b) For long duration? Also, write the
chemical equations for the reactions
involved.
24. Balance the following chemical
equations: [2014]
a) HNO3 + Ca(OH)2 ----------->
Ca(NO3)2 + H2O
b) NaOH + H2SO4 ------------->
Na2SO4 + H2O
c) BaCl2 + H2SO4 -------------->
BaSO4 + HCl
25. Write balanced chemical equation for
the following: [2012]
a) Silver bromide exposes to sunlight,
decomposes into silver and bromine.
b) Sodium metal reacts with water to form
sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
Also, name the reaction.
26. Define the term decomposition reaction.
Give an example each of thermal
 decomposition and electrolytic
decomposition reaction. [2016]
27. When a copper wire is left in silver
nitrate solution for sometime, it was
observed that the solution turns bluish
green. [2016]
a) Explain the observation
b) Write the balanced chemical equation to
represent the change taking place.
28. Write the chemical equation of the
reaction with an example each in which the
following change has been taken place.
[2014]
a) Change in colour
b) Change in temperature
c) Formation of precipitate
29. Write balanced chemical equations for
the following reactions: [2013]
a) Dilute sulphuric acid reacts with
aluminium powder.
b) Dilute hydrochloric acid reacts with
sodium carbonate.
c) Carbondioxide gas is passed through
lime water.
30. Name the term used to indicate the
development of unpleasant smell and taste
in fat and oil containing food due to
oxidation. [2016]
a) What are antioxidants
b) Why are they added to fat and oil
containing food?
31. In the reaction, [2015]
CuO + H2 ---------------> Cu +
H 2O
a) Name the substance oxidized
b) Name the substance reduced
c) Name the oxidizing agent
32. Name two metals which do not corrode
easily. Give an example in each of the
following case to support that.
a) Corrosion of some metals is an
advantage. [2016]
b) Corrosion of a metal is a serious
problem.
33. Name the type of reaction:
N2 + H2 ------------> NH3
34. What happens when milk is left open at
room temperature during summer?
[2017]
35. What is precipitation reaction? Give an
example. [2017]
36. You are provided with a container made
up of aluminium. You are also provided with
solution of dil. HCl, dil. HNO3, ZnCl2 and H2O.
Out of these solutions, which solution can
be kept in the aluminium container? Name
the type of reaction taking place.
[2013]
37. Define a chemical reaction. State four
observations which helps us to determine
that a chemical reaction has taken place.
 Write one example of each observation
with a balanced chemical equation.
[2016]
38. Identify the type of chemical reaction in
the following statements and define each of
them: [2016]
a) Digestion of food in our body.
b) Rusting of iron.
c) Heating of manganese dioxide with
aluminium powder.
d) Blue colour of copper sulphate solution
disappears when iron filings are added to it.
e) Dilute hydrochloric acid is added to
sodium hydroxide solution to form sodium
chloride and water.