1. Name _______________________________________ Date ______________________
Chapter 11 Study Guide
• What is a reactant and what is a product in a chemical reaction?
• What is the law of conservation of mass?
• Be able to describe a chemical reaction in a sentence
• Be able to describe a chemical equation in a word equation.
• What is an aqueous solution?
• What is a catalyst?
• Be able to balance equations
• Know what all the symbols in equations mean
• What is a combination reaction? Be able to predict the products of this type of
reaction.
• What is a decomposition reaction? Be able to predict the products of this type of
reaction.
• What is a single replacement reaction? Be able to predict the products of this type of
reaction.
• What are the rules for the activity series of metals?
• What are the rules for the activity series of halogens?

2. • Use table J to predict whether or not a single replacement reaction will take place or
not.
• What is a double replacement reaction? Be able to predict the products of this type of
reaction.
• What is a precipitate?
• What are the three types of products that are “driving forces” for double replacement
reactions.
• What is a combustion reaction? What are the products of this type or reaction?
• How do you write a net ionic equation?
• Be able to use table F to predict the precipitate formed in a double replacement
reaction