Quiz Biochemistry Vocabulary

Water sticks to other substances, like this leaf. This is called...

• Adhesion

• Cohesion

Weak bonds between different water molecules are called

• Covalent bonds

• Ionic bonds

• Polar bonds

• Hydrogen bonds

When water molecules stick to other water molecules, beads form. This is because of...

• cohesion

• adhesion

• solution

• nonpolarity

The building block of matter and the smallest part of an element.

• quark

• electron

• shell

• atom

Substances that have only one kind of atom are called:

• elements

• nitrogen

• electrons

• nucleus

Is water an element or a compound?

• element

• compound

• neither

• both

Two or more substances chemically combined is a(n)

• compound

• element

• atom

• electron

Solute

• a substance that is dissolved

• the substance in which the solute dissolves

• a compound that releases H+ ions into a solution

• a compound that produces hydroxide (OH-) ions in solutions

Solvent

• a substance that is dissolved

• the substance in which the solute dissolves

• a compound that releases H+ ions into a solution

• a compound that produces hydroxide (OH-) ions in solutions

An element is

• a simple chemical

• a complex chemical

• a simple partilcle made of one type of atom

• a particle made of different types of atoms