Chemistry& 161, Exam I
Review Outline

As a part of your review you should focus in the problem assignment from Chapters 1 & 2 in the text, as well as the first two experiments on the Measurement & Density and Density of a Liquid Mixture. The exam will test you on the following:

1. Terms/Concepts
   1. Density
   2. Scientific method
   3. Matter, substance, mixture, homogeneous, heterogeneous
   4. Physical and chemical properties, and change
   5. Potential energy, kinetic energy
   6. Element, atom, compound, molecule, isotope
   7. Periodic properties
   8. Atomic number, atomic mass
   9. Protron, neutron, electron
2. Skills/Background Knowledge
   1. Metric units of grams, meters, liters, °C, K
   2. Metric prefixes giga, mega, kilo, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico, and their abbreviations
   3. Significant figures, rounding off
   4. Scientific notation
   5. Short list of elemental symbols
   6. Short list of names of ions, and their charges
   7. Ionic and covalent bonding
3. Problem solving abilities
   1. Metric conversions, including temperatures
   2. Density
   3. Percent error
   4. Molecular mass or molar mass
   5. Percent composition
   6. Average atomic mass
4. Naming & writing formulas