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G9 Metals and Reactivity TEST

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Grade 9 TEST – Metals and the Reactivity Series

1. Metals are chosen for particular uses according to their properties.


Complete the table to suggest the two properties of each metal that make them useful
for the named purpose:

Metal Use Properties


1. Ductile
Copper Electrical wiring
2. Good conductor of electricity
1. hard
Iron Building bridges
2. Malleable
[4]

2. A student investigated the reactivity of metals by placing each metal in metal sulphate
solutions.
The table below shows some of their results.

Metal (solid)
solution aluminium barium lithium magnesium

aluminium sulphate  * 
barium sulphate x  
lithium sulphate  x x
magnesium sulphate   
 = reaction observed  = no reaction

a) State two variables that the student must control (keep the same) in order
for the experiment to be a fair test.

1. The amount of solution

2. The amount of metal


[2]
b) Use the results given to put the metals in order of reactivity starting with the
most reactive.

Li, Ba, Mg, Al


[2]
c) Use your reactivity series from part b) to complete the missing results in table.

[4]

3. Complete the word equations for the following displacement reactions:

i) Barium + Magnesium sulphate Barium + Magnesium sulpahte


[2]

ii) Lithium + Magnesium oxide Magnesium + lithium oxide


[2]

4. When Group 1 elements react with water, a gas is given off.

The diagram shows the reaction of lithium, potassium and sodium in water.

a) Which one of these elements A, B or C is lithium? [1]


C

b) i) Write a balanced equation for the reaction between potassium and water. [3]
Include state symbols.

Potassium(s) + water(ag) = Potassium Hydroxide(ag) + hydrogen(g)

ii) Apart from effervescence (fizzing), describe two other things you would see when
potassium reacts with water.

1. Fire

2. melted into a ball


[2]

iii) After the potassium had reacted with the water, the solution was tested with
universal indicator paper.
What colour would the universal indicator paper turn?
Give a the formula of the particle that causes this colour change.

Colour: Purple/Blue
Formula of particle responsible: ………………………………………… [2]

d) Give two properties that Group 1 metals share with other metals.

1. Malleable

2. Ductile [2]

e) Give two properties that the Group 1 metals have that make them unusual when
compared with other metals.

1. low density

2. Very soft [2]

5. Look at the results of the two displacement reactions for tin, lead and silver.

Tin nitrate lead Silver nitrate


solution solution

No metal Silver
deposited deposited

Place these three metals in order of increasing reactivity.

Lead, Tin, Silver [2]

6. The order of metal reactivity can be decided by reacting metals with acids.
When metals reacts with acid hydrogen gas and a salt are formed.

a) Describe the test for hydrogen gas:

Test: A lit splint

Result: A squeaky pop [2]


b) Complete the word equations for the following reactions:

(i) calcium + hydrochloric acid  calcium chloride + Hydrogen [2]

(ii) sodium + water  Sodium hydroxide + Hydrogen [2]

(iii) aluminium + (hot) sulphuric acid  aluminium sulfate + hydrogen [2]

(iv) iron + nitric acid  iron nitrate + Hydrogen [2]

(v) magnesium + steam  Magnesium oxide + hydrogen [2]

c) Aluminium is a very reactive metal. Explain why in reaction b)(iii) the acid must be
heated before the aluminium can be made to react.

Heating gives the acid particles more energy, this means they move faster
[2]

END OF TEST

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