GCSE Chemistry – Hydrocarbons and alkanes

Last updated: 08/06/2020
OCR 21st Century GCSE Science – Combined science higher Chemicals of the natural environment GCSE Chemistry – Hydrocarbons and alkanes

Learning Objectives

-I can recall that crude oil is the main source of hydrocarbons
-I can state that alkanes are a homologous series

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  1. What are alkanes a part of?

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  2. What is the definition of a homologous series?

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  3. What is the general formula for an alkane?

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  4. Within the general formula, what does n stand for?

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  5. What type of compounds are alkanes?

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  6. What types of bonds do alkanes contain?

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  7. What is the definition of a hydrocarbon?

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  8. What type of atoms do hydrocarbons contain?

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  9. What type of atoms do hydrocarbons contain?

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  10. What type of atoms is crude oil made from?

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  11. What type of atoms is crude oil made from?

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  12. What is crude oil made from?

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  13. What is crude oil made from?

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  14. What is crude oil made from?

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  15. What needs to happen to crude oil before it is used?

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  16. What is the definition of a mixture?

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  17. What should crude oil be separated into?

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  18. How is crude oil separated?

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  19. What type of substance is crude oil?

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  20. What type of substance is crude oil?

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  21. What type of resource is crude oil?

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  22. What type of resource is crude oil?

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