Acids & Bases Notes Discussion

Acids & Bases Notes Discussion

by Levorn Miller

Poll

Are you familiar with what makes something an acid or a base?

• I learned about acids and bases in a previous grade but I don't remember much.

• I know a little about acids and bases. 

• I know what makes something an acid or a base. 

• I don't know much at all about acids and bases. 

​PROPERTIES AND USES OF ACIDS AND BASES

Multiple Choice

Soap is a weak base.  What is true about the taste of bases?

• they taste sour

• they taste sweet

• they taste bitter

• they taste salty

Multiple Choice

Explain what happens when a strong acid and a strong base are poured into the same container.

• they form separate layers

• they mix physically but not chemically

• they break apart into separate elements

• they react chemically to form a salt

Multiple Choice

Holly has an unknown substance in a beaker. She wants to determine the relative pH of the unknown substance. She places a piece of blue litmus paper into the substance, and the litmus paper stays blue.

The substance in the beaker

• is a base

• is an acid

• have neutral pH

• doesn't have pH

Multiple Choice

Many cleaning solutions are bases. Which of the following is a property of most bases?

• feels slippery

• white color

• can only be liquid

• tastes sour

Multiple Choice

A sour taste is a characteristic of:

• acid

• base

• neutral

• pH scale

​pH Indicators Part 1

​pH Indicators Part 2

Multiple Choice

LETTER A HAS A PH OF ____

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

Multiple Choice

LETTER  B HAS A PH OF ____

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Multiple Choice

LETTER  C HAS A PH OF ____

• 7

• 8

• 9

• 10

• 11

Multiple Choice

LETTER  D HAS A PH OF ____

• 11

• 12

• 13

• 14

• 15

Multiple Choice

What would be considered the weakest base?

• 8

• 7.8

• 11.6

• 14

Multiple Choice

The pH of a solution is tested, and it is found to be a basic solution. Of the following choices, what could the pH have been?

• 3

• 7

• 9

• 5

Multiple Choice

Stronger acids have a pH closer to...

• 7

• 14

• 0

• 9