Regents Chemistry Test Preparation Practice

    Physical Behavior Of Matter

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    Base your answers to questions 11 on the information below.

    Nitrogen gas and oxygen gas make up about 99% of Earth’s atmosphere. Other atmospheric gases include argon, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, hydrogen, etc.

    The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can vary. Data for the concentration of CO2(g) from 1960 to 2000 are shown in the table below.

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    Base your answers to questions 12 on the information below and on your knowledge of chemistry.

    A metal worker uses a cutting torch that operates by reacting acetylene gas, C2H2(g), with oxygen gas, O2(g), as shown in the unbalanced equation below.

    C2H2(g) + O2(g) → CO2(g) + H2O(g) + heat

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    Base your answers to questions 13 on the information below and on your knowledge of chemistry.

    Starting as a solid, a sample of a molecular substance is heated, until the entire sample of the substance is a gas. The graph below represents the relationship between the temperature of the sample and the elapsed time.

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    Base your answers to questions 14 on the information below and on your knowledge of chemistry.

    In the late 1800s, Dmitri Mendeleev developed a periodic table of the elements known at that time. Based on the pattern in his periodic table, he was able to predict properties of some elements that had not yet been discovered. Information about two of these elements is shown in the table below.

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    Base your answers to questions 15 on the information below and on your knowledge of chemistry.

    The table below contains selected information about chlorine and two compounds containing chlorine. One piece of information is missing for each of the substances in the table.

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