Science for Elementary Educators
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Course Introduction
Science for Elementary Educators is designed to provide future teachers with a comprehensive understanding of key scientific concepts, principles, and methods relevant to elementary education. The course emphasizes inquiry-based learning, hands-on activities, and effective teaching strategies to engage young learners in the scientific process. Through exploration of foundational topics in life, physical, and earth sciences, students develop the skills to foster curiosity and critical thinking in the classroom. Additionally, attention is given to designing age-appropriate lesson plans, integrating science across the curriculum, and addressing diversity and equity in science education.
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Conceptual Chemistry 5th Edition by John A. Suchocki
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Chapter 1: About Science
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Q1) After the devastating tsunami of December 2004, dozens of Scientologists mobilized to effected regions of south Asia to join in the relief effort. Instead of traditional medical aid, however, these pseudo scientists provided pamphlets along with "touch assist" treatment in which they touch wounded areas with a fingertip. What might the victims have thought about the efforts of the Scientologists?
A)The victims might perceive their efforts as admirable if the Scientologists were also assisting in the distribution of food and clothing.
B)The relief efforts of the scientologists may have been perceived as questionable if they consisted only of passing out pamphlets and practicing their "touch assist" healing.
C)If the victims' wounds healed within a few days, it's possible that the victims may have attributed the healing to the touch assist.
D)All of the above are likely thoughts by the victims of the devastating tsunami.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Particles of Matter
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Q1) Does a 2 kg solid iron brick have twice as much mass as a 1 kg solid block of wood? Twice as much volume?
A)The iron brick has twice the mass as well as twice the volume.
B)The iron brick has twice the mass, but only half the volume.
C)The iron brick has twice the mass, but its volume compared to the block of wood depends on the density of the wood.
D)The iron brick has twice the mass, but its volume compared to the block of wood depends on the weight of the wood.
Answer: C
Q2) A piece of aluminum weighing 10.0 grams is placed into a graduated cylinder that has an initial volume (before immersion)of 35.0 mL. After immersion, the volume on the cylinder reads 38.7 mL. What is the density of the metal sample?
A)2.70 g/mL
B)0.25 g/mL
C)0.28 g/mL
D)0.37 g/mL
E)3.70 g/mL
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Elements of Chemistry
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Q1) How would you classify the following material? a cappuccino (with foam)
A)a suspension
B)a heterogeneous mixture
C)a solution
D)an element
E)a compound
Answer: B
Q2) The boiling point of methanol is 65°C and the boiling point of ethanol is 78°C. Which of the following statements is true?
A)At 70°C you would have methanol gas and liquid ethanol.
B)At 90°C you would have methanol and ethanol as solids.
C)At 50°C you would have methanol and ethanol as gases.
D)At 40°C the methanol reacts with the ethanol.
E)none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Subatomic Particles
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Q1) Which of the following is a property of light?
A)It is a wave.
B)It is a particle.
C)Its energy comes in packets of uniform size.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q2) The following statement describes which subatomic particle best? It is electrically charged.
A)an electron
B)a proton
C)a neutron
D)A and B
E)B and C
Q3) What was Niels Bohr's explanation for the observation of atomic spectra?
A)Electrons could only move in discrete energy steps within an atom.
B)Electrons could not move in an atom.
C)Any photon could excite an electron.
D)Only certain photons with the correct energy could excite the quanta in the nucleus.
E)Nucleons could be excited by different electron energies.
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Chapter 5: The Atomic Nucleus
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Q1) Which type of radiation from cosmic sources predominates on the inside of a high-flying commercial airplane: alpha, beta, or gamma?
A)alpha radiation
B)beta radiation
C)gamma radiation
D)None of these predominate as all three are abundant.
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes the role of neutrons in the nucleus?
A)The neutrons stabilize the nucleus by attracting protons and other neutrons.
B)The neutrons stabilize the nucleus by forming bonds with other neutrons.
C)The neutrons stabilize the nucleus by attracting protons.
D)The neutrons stabilize the nucleus by balancing charge.
E)The neutrons stabilize the nucleus by adding mass.
Q3) If carbon-14 is a beta emitter, what is the likely product of radioactive decay?
A)nitrogen-14
B)carbon-12
C)oxygen-18
D)berrylium-10
E)none of the above
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Chapter 6: How Atoms Bond
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Q1) Which of the following is a negative ion?
A)Na<sup>+</sup>
B)Na
C)O<sup>2-</sup>
D)O
E)all of the above
Q2) Is an ionic compound an example of a chemical compound, or is a chemical compound an example of an ionic compound?
A)An chemical compound is an example of a ionic compound.
B)Neither is an example of the other.
C)Each is an example of the other.
D)An ionic compound is an example of a chemical compound.
Q3) Which of the following elements will most likely form an ion with a +1 charge?
A)Na
B)Mg
C)Al
D)Si
E)Cl
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Chapter 7: How Molecules Mix
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Q1) What happens when the molecule-to-molecule attractions in the solute are comparable to those in the solvent?
A)The solute can have infinite solubility in the solvent.
B)The solute does not dissolve in the solvent.
C)The material has only limited solubility in the solvent.
D)The solution will become saturated.
E)none of the above
Q2) In which of the following molecules will water induce a temporary dipole?
A)CO<sub>2</sub>
B)O<sub>2</sub>
C)N<sub>2</sub>
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q3) Which of the following statements about desalinization is untrue?
A)You can use osmosis to remove salt from saltwater.
B)You can use distillation to separate salt from saltwater.
C)Desalinization is an energy intensive process.
D)All are untrue.
E)Only a and b are untrue.
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Chapter 8: How Water Behaves
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Q1) Water is most dense at ________.
A)-4°C
B)0°C
C)+4°C
D)+100°C
Q2) Why does soap decrease the surface tension of of water?
A)It keeps water molecules away from the surface.
B)It increases the capillary action of the water.
C)It increases the ionic content of the water.
D)It decreases the amount of intermolecular attraction between the water molecules. E)none of the above
Q3) A walnut stuck to a pin is burned beneath a can containing 100.0 grams of water at 21°C. After the walnut has completely burned, the water's final temperature is a warmer 28°C. How much heat energy arose from the burning walnut?
A)3,000 joules
B)9,000 joules
C)5,000 joules
D)2,000 joules
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Chapter 9: How Chemicals React
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Q1) How many oxygen molecules are needed to make 10 carbon dioxide molecules according to the following balanced chemical equation? 2 CO + O<sub>2</sub> 2 CO<sub>2</sub>
A)5
B)1
C)4
D)10
E)2
Q2) How does formula mass differ from atomic mass?
A)They represent the same thing.
B)The formula mass of a substance is the sum of the atomic masses of the elements is its chemical formula. The atomic mass is the mass of a single atom.
C)The atomic mass of a substance is the sum of the formula masses of the elements is its chemical formula. The atomic mass is the mass of a single atom.
D)The formula mass is the mass of the chemical formula and the atomic mass is the mass of the molecule.
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Chapter 10: Acids and Bases in Our Environment
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Q1) What happens to the pH of a 1M solution of hydrochloric acid, HCl, as carbon dioxide gas is bubbled into it?
A)The pH decreases as the solution becomes more acidic since carbon dioxide reacts to form carbonic acid thus increasing the overall acid concentration.
B)The pH increases as the solution becomes more basic since the carbon dioxide continues to tie up more and more of the hydrogen ions as associated carbonic acid molecules.
C)The pH remains unchanged. Carbon dioxide is unable to affect the pH in the presence of such a concentrated solution of such a strong acid.
D)At first the pH will increase as carbon dioxide ties up the hydrogen ions from the solution. Once the concentration of the resulting carbonic acid becomes greater than 1M, the pH will begin to decrease indicating the presence of more acid.
Q2) Carbon dioxide reacts with water to form ________.
A)carbon dioxide and water
B)carbonic acid
C)sodium bicarbonate
D)hydrated carbon
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Chapter 11: Oxidations and Reductions Charge the World
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Q1) Metal ores are isolated from rock by taking advantage of differences in both physical and chemical properties. Cite examples given in the textbook where differences in physical properties are used.
A)the electrolysis of impure copper metal
B)the addition of carbon to the iron ore blast furnace
C)the addition of oil to a slurry of metal sulfides
D)all of the above
Q2) Sodium metal is ________.
A)oxidized in the production of aluminum
B)reduced in the production of aluminum
C)both oxidized and reduced in the production of aluminum
D)neither oxidized nor reduced in the production of aluminum
Q3) What is one of the advantages of a fuel cell?
A)They can run for a very long time as long as you keep adding fuel.
B)They are more efficient than combustion.
C)They have lower emission of pollutants than combustion.
D)all of the above
E)only A and B
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Chapter 12: Organic Compounds
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Q1) Which of the following is a heteroatom?
A)O
B)C
C)H
D)A and B
E)all of the above
Q2) The solvent diethyl ether can be mixed with water but only by shaking the two liquids together. After the shaking is stopped, the liquids separate into two layers, much like oil and vinegar. The free-base form of the alkaloid caffeine is readily soluble in diethyl ether but not in water. Suggest what might happen to the caffeine of a caffeinated beverage if the beverage was first made alkaline with sodium hydroxide and then shaken with some diethyl ether.
A)The water layer would turn a pink color indicating an alkaline pH.
B)The caffeine would transform into the free base and become more soluble in the diethyl ether.
C)The caffeine would transform into the free acid and transfer into the diethyl ether.
D)The diethyl ether and water would mix into one layer.
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Chapter 13: Nutrients of Life
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Q1) The chromosomes contain the hereditary information in the form of ________ and this is the code for building all the molecules in the body.
A)DNA
B)RNA
C)protein
D)cytoplasm
E)none of the above
Q2) What would be the complimentary strand to the following sequence of DNA? GATTACA
A)CTAATGT
B)GATTACA
C)AGCCGTG
D)ACATTAG
E)GTGCCGA
Q3) It is important to have cholesterol in your body because ________.
A)it is the starting material for the building of glycogen
B)the brain is made almost entirely of cholesterol
C)it helps break down extra fat lipids in the body
D)it serves as the starting material for the biosynthesis of most all other steroids
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Chapter 14: Medicinal Chemistry
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Q1) Why is it very difficult to fight viral infections?
A)A virus is not alive and therefore impossible to kill.
B)It is hard to destroy a virus without damaging the host.
C)The cell wall of a virus is too thick to penetrate.
D)The RNA and DNA of a virus is too different.
E)A and B
Q2) What advantages are there to synthesizing a naturally occurring medicine, such as Taxol, in the laboratory rather than isolating it from nature?
A)Synthesizing a natural product can be advantageous when the source of the natural product is rare and thus not readily available.
B)In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, the chemist is able to create closely related compounds that may have even greater medicinal properties.
C)Both A and B are true.
D)In synthesizing the natural product in the laboratory, a chemist can increase the concentration of the synthetic beyond that of natural product to insure maximum potency for good heath.
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Chapter 15: Optimizing Food Production
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Q1) Besides lure-and-trap, how else might pheromones be used to decrease insect populations?
A)use a pheromone that insects detect as a warning system
B)Spray insect-attracting pheromones right on the plant. The many species of insects that collect will compete and potentially kill each other.
C)Concentrated solutions of pheromones tend to dissolve the chitin of which insect are made.
D)all of the above
Q2) Which of the following soil horizons is the closest to the surface?
A)substratum
B)subsoil
C)topsoil
D)bottom soil
E)humus
Q3) Plants need nitrogen primarily so that they can build ________.
A)carbohydrates
B)lipids
C)amino acids
D)vitamins
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Chapter 16: Protection Water and Air Resources
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Q1) What component of our world is similar to a parked car with indows rolled up on a sunny day?
A)the atmosphere
B)the clouds
C)the soil
D)the ozone layer
E)all of the above
Q2) Gas fills all the space available to it. Why then doesn't the atmosphere go off into space?
A)It does, but the rate is so slow that our atmosphere will remain for millions of years.
B)The atmosphere is held down by gravity.
C)The rate at which air molecule escape into space is about equal to the rate that they are produced by various mechanisms, such as volcanic activity and photosynthesis.
D)There are molecular attractions between air molecules and the earth's surface.
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Chapter 17: Capturing Energy
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a passive stability mechanism?
A)the reactor that shuts itself down past a certain temperature due to thermal expansion of the control rods
B)several layers of containment that separate the core from safe zones
C)the application of materials that allow higher neutron emission at higher temperatures
D)the use of pressurized containment buildings that can be tested for leaks
E)none of the above
Q2) When an electrical power transmission line goes down, adjacent lines immediately experience ________.
A)a loss of power
B)a surge in power
C)a drop in power
D)minimal effects
Q3) In 2009, most electrical power worldwide came from ________.
A)coal
B)oil
C)hydroelectric
D)nuclear fission
E)nuclear fusion
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