Year 12 · VCE / Chemistry
Flashcards and recall.
Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
Try this with Chemistry
- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- Define exothermic reaction (in energy-profile terms)
- Define endothermic reaction (in energy-profile terms)
- Thermochemical equation: what extra info must be shown vs a normal equation?
- Heat energy released by a fuel: q = ?
- Compare energy content of petrodiesel vs biodiesel (per gram) and explain
- Why is bioethanol considered closer to carbon-neutral than petrol?
- Write the equation for complete combustion of ethanol and state the carbon product
- Galvanic cell: what happens at the anode vs the cathode?
- Role of the salt bridge in a galvanic cell
- How to predict cell EMF and spontaneous reaction from the electrochemical series
- Common trap: direction of electron flow vs ion flow in a galvanic cell
- Hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell: overall reaction and a key advantage
- Limitations of the electrochemical series for predicting reactions
- Two main differences between a galvanic cell and an electrolytic cell
- Faraday's relationship: linking charge, current and amount of electrons
- Predicting products of aqueous electrolysis — what competes with the ions?
- Define rate of reaction and name the typical measurable quantities
- Collision theory: the two conditions for a successful (effective) collision
- How does increasing temperature increase reaction rate? (two reasons)
- How does a catalyst increase reaction rate? (be precise)
- Define dynamic equilibrium
- Write the equilibrium law expression for aA + bB ⇌ cC + dD
- What does the magnitude of K tell you about a reaction?
- Le Chatelier's principle (statement)
- Effect on equilibrium of decreasing volume (increasing pressure) of a gaseous system
- Why does only temperature change the value of K?
- Reaction quotient Q: how is it used to predict the direction of net change?
- Common trap: effect of adding a catalyst on equilibrium position and yield
- Interpreting a concentration–time graph: how to identify when equilibrium is reached and how a stress shows up
- Why does adding an inert (noble) gas at constant volume NOT shift a gaseous equilibrium?
- Functional group: hydroxyl
- Functional group: carboxyl
- Difference between an ester linkage and an amide linkage
- Primary vs secondary vs tertiary alcohol — how to tell apart
- Oxidation products of primary and secondary alcohols
- Reagents used to oxidise alcohols in VCE
- Substitution reaction of an alkane (with halogen)
- Addition reaction of an alkene — key feature
- Test to distinguish an alkene from an alkane
- Esterification — reaction, conditions and by-product
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