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The alkanes quiz

Answer all the multiple choice questions below to test your knowledge on crude oil and the alkanes. Hit the check answer button to get your score when you have completed the quiz.

An oil rig drilling for oil at sea. Drilling for crude oil on land

1. What is our main source of hydrocarbon molecules?




2. Crude oil is formed from the remains of:




3. Why did the remains of the plankton not decay when they died?



They were buried and lacked enough oxygen for decay to occur

4. are molecules which consist of the two elements carbon and and they are found in crude oil.

5. Over millions of years what cause the remains of plankton to turn into crude oil?




Montage showing much of our transport system uses fuels obtained from crude oil.

6. Why is crude oil described as a finite resource??




7. Which of the following is true of alkanes?




8. What is the general formula for the alkanes?




Students building models of molecules in the lab.

9. What is the correct formula for butane?




10. Which name prefix matches an alkane with 5 carbon atoms?




11. The alkanes can form a:


series

12. What is true about the members of a homologous series?




13. Which statement below best describes methane?




14. Which of the following statements is true?




15. When a clean white evaporating basin was placed in a flame it was quickly covered in a black powder. What does this show?