Chemistry 0620 · IGCSE · Solids, liquids and gases

Solids, liquids and gases — practice question

The graph illustrates how the volume of a fixed mass of carbon dioxide gas changes when the pressure is increased at constant temperature.
(a)[2]

Describe how gas volume varies as pressure changes.

(b)[1]

What happens to the average distance between the molecules when the pressure is decreased?

(c(i))[1]

Use the equation to demonstrate that carbon dioxide undergoes reduction.

(c(ii))[1]

Which one of these processes does not give off carbon dioxide? Tick one box. respiration reaction of an acid with a metal oxide reaction of an acid with a carbonate thermal decomposition of limestone

(c(iii))[2]

Give two problems caused by an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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