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The Earth's early atmosphere was mainly carbon dioxide which is thought to have come from volcanoes.
Chemistry - Carbon Dioxide (AQA)
Changes which take place and have taken place in the Earth's crust, biosphere and atmosphere are all studied in GCSE Science. This is the last of three quizzes on that topic and it looks in particular at carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle.
The Earth's atmosphere has undergone many dramatic changes since it was formed around four billion years ago - and it is still changing today. It has been much the same for the last 200 million years or so and provides the conditions needed for life as we know it on Earth. Recently, human activities have resulted in further changes in Earth's atmosphere. One of the gases that we send into the atmosphere is carbon dioxide. This is thought by many to be causing changes to the world's climate.
1 .
Liquid carbon dioxide does not conduct electricity. What might this tell us about it?
It is a gas
It is colourless
It is a covalently compound substance
It is an ionically compound substance
Covalently bonded compounds do not conduct electricity
2 .
Which of the following diagrams best represents a molecule of carbon dioxide?
C=O=O
C-O-O
O-C-O
O=C=O
The carbon atom is joined to two oxygen atoms by double covalent bonds
3 .
What do the lines represent on covalent bonding diagrams, such as in question 2?
Electrons belonging to the oxygen atoms
Electrons belonging to the carbon atom
Pairs of electrons shared by both the carbon and the oxygen
Electrons transferred from the carbon to the oxygen
In covalent bonding, pairs of electrons are shared
4 .
Which one of the following reactions would produce carbon dioxide?
Hydrochloric acid and copper carbonate
Carbonic acid and zinc oxide
Water and lithium carbonate
Sodium hydroxide and calcium carbonate
A key reaction that you are expected to know is that strong acids will react with metal carbonates to produce water, a salt and carbon dioxide
5 .
Choose the correct words in the correct order that would fill the gaps:
There is a natural and balanced ___________ of carbon dioxide between the __________ and the biosphere. Plants remove it by the process of __________. Animals (and plants during the night) return carbon dioxide to the air by the process of __________.
There is a natural and balanced ___________ of carbon dioxide between the __________ and the biosphere. Plants remove it by the process of __________. Animals (and plants during the night) return carbon dioxide to the air by the process of __________.
exchange, atmosphere, respiration, photosynthesis
exchange, atmosphere, photosynthesis, respiration
atmosphere, photosynthesis, exchange , respiration
plants, animals, carbon, dioxide
This is part of the carbon cycle
6 .
Which of the following human activities increase the natural concentration of carbon dioxide in the air?
Driving petrol and diesel powered vehicles
Making cement
Manufacture of iron and steel
All of the above
There are other activities too. Exams will test you to find out if you realise that any activity that involves burning a fossil fuel or heating limestone will put extra carbon dioxide into the air
7 .
Which of the following environmental issues is strongly linked to higher than normal levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
The hole in the ozone layer
Global warming
Pollution
All of the above
The hole in the ozone layer is linked to chloro fluoro carbons (CFC's) and pollution covers a lot more than just the carbon dioxide issue
8 .
What is the test for carbon dioxide and what result would you get?
Litmus paper - blue
Lighted splint - squeaky pop
moist pH paper - orange
Limewater - cloudy
Whilst moist pH paper would show an orange colour if it was in contact with carbon dioxide dissolved in water, many other things would cause the same result
9 .
What is the compound produced in the test for carbon dioxide?
Calcium carbonate
Calcium hydroxide
Calcium chloride
Calcium sulfate
Limewater is a solution of calcium hydroxide, which is a base. Carbon dioxide is a weak acid and reacts with it to produce the calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is insoluble in an alkaline solution and water and so is precipitated, giving the cloudiness
10 .
It is thought that the Earth's early atmosphere was mainly carbon dioxide. But where do most scientists believe it came from and which other gases are thought to have been present in small quantities?
It came from comets and oxygen and nitrogen were also present
It came from asteroids and ammonia and methane were also present
It came from the Sun and oxygen and methane were also present
It came from volcanoes and ammonia and methane were also present
Oxygen only appeared when organisms like blue-green algae had evolved, as they were the first organisms that used photosynthesis
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