AQA GCSE Combined Science Chemistry 8464
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
Bonding, Structure, and the Properties of Matter
Chemical Analysis
Chemical Changes
Chemistry of the Atmosphere
Energy Changes
Organic Chemistry
Quantitative Chemistry
The Rate and Extent of Chemical Change
Chemical Changes
The reactivity series
- 3 things to know
- Chemistry Paper 1
Overview
Metals forming positive ions and reactivity as the tendency to do so, the series from potassium to copper with hydrogen and carbon for comparison, displacement reactions, ordering metals by their reactions with water and dilute acid in a fair test, and why potassium reacts more vigorously than magnesium.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
List potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron and copper in order from most reactive to least reactive.
Which two non-metals are often placed in the reactivity series?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What kind of ion does a metal atom form when it reacts with another substance?
Model answer
A positively charged ion.
- 2
What is the reactivity of a metal related to?
Model answer
Its tendency to lose electrons and form positive ions.
- 3
List potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron and copper in order from most reactive to least reactive.
Model answer
Potassium, sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, copper.
- 4
Which two non-metals are often placed in the reactivity series?
Model answer
Hydrogen and carbon.
- 5
Why is carbon included in the reactivity series?
Model answer
So that metals can be compared with it, which shows whether carbon can take the oxygen from a metal oxide.
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Why is hydrogen included in the reactivity series?
Model answer
So that metals can be compared with it, which shows whether a metal will react with a dilute acid to release hydrogen.
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