GNSC 1114 Exam II Review

Use the following guide to help direct your study of the Chemistry in Context book.

Chapter 3: The Chemistry of Global Warming

• The greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases

• Fates of solar energy

• Experimental evidence of global warming

• Temperature measurements

• CO₂ measurements

• Correlation

• Molecular shape

• Lewis structures

• VSEPR

• Molecule vibrations

• Infrared radiation

• The carbon cycle: sources and sinks for atmospheric CO₂

• Atomic mass and molar mass

• Avogadro's number and the mole

• Additional greenhouse gases

• Global warming potential

• Modeling global warming

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Effects of Global Warming

• Strategies for changes in greenhouse gas emissions

• Sequestration

• Kyoto Protocol

Chapter 4: Energy, Chemistry and Society

• Definitions of energy, work, heat, temperature

• Potential and Kinetic Energy

• First law of thermodynamics

• Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics

• Definitions of exothermic, endothermic, combustion

• Calorimeter

• Bond energy and heat of combustion

• Energy per mole or per gram

• Increasing demand for fuel

• Advantages and disadvantages of coal

• Advantages and disadvantages of petroleum

• Distillation and cracking of petroleum

• Catalysis

• Advantages and disadvantages of biofuels

• Sources of biofuels

• Importance of Conservation