HOW DOES A COMPOUND GET ITS NAME?

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

THERE ARE GENERALLY TWO KINDS OF COMPOUNDS: IONIC COMPOUNDS AND COVALENT COMPOUNDS.

IONIC COMPOUNDS ARE USUALLY MADE OF A METALLIC ELEMENT(S) AND A NONMETALLIC ELEMENT(S).

COVALENT COMPOUNDS ARE MADE ONLY OF NONMETALLIC ELEMENTS.

THE METALLIC ELEMENTS ARE LOCATED ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE PERIODIC TABLE WHEREAS THE NONMETALLIC ELEMENTS ARE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE PERIODIC TABLE.

THE RULES FOR NAMING IONIC COMPOUNDS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE RULES USED TO NAME COVALENT COMPOUNDS.

EXAMPLES:

IONIC COMPOUNDS (METAL AND NONMETAL)		COVALENT COMPOUNDS (NONMETAL AND NONMETAL)
NAME	FORMULA	NAME	FORMULA
SODIUM CHLORIDE (SALT)		DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE (WATER)
MAGNESIUM OXIDE		CARBON DIOXIDE
CALCIUM CHLORIDE		DINITROGEN TETROXIDE

LEARN HOW TO NAME IONIC COMPOUNDS

LEARN HOW TO NAME COVALENT COMPOUNDS

ACTIVITY

PRACTICE YOUR SKILLS IN NAMING COMPOUNDS.

CHOICE 1: WORK FROM YOUR CHEMICALS IN ACTION TEXTBOOK.

• DO QUESTIONS 1 AND 2 ON PAGE 149 TO PRACTICE NAMING IONIC COMPOUNDS
• DO QUESTION 1 ON PAGE 179 TO PRACTICE NAMING COVALENT COMPOUNDS
• CHECK YOUR TEXTBOOK ANSWERS. CLICK HERE.

CHOICE 2: WORK ON LINE.

• HERE! TRY THESE QUESTIONS! GOOK LUCK!

ASSIGNMENT

DO THE ATTACHED ASSIGNMENT. CHOOSE YOUR SELECTED FORMAT:

RICH TEXT FORMAT

MSWORD FORMAT

PDF VERSION

CHECK YOUR WORK BY OBTAINING THE ANSWER KEY.

ASSESSMENT

HAND IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT FOR GRADING. YOUR WORK WILL BE SCORED OUT OF 15 MARKS. EACH CORRECT CLASSIFICATION IS WORTH 0.5 AND EACH CORRECT NAME IS WORTH 1 MARK.