Hydrocarbon bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Open chain hydrocarbon with only single carbon bonds.

   Item

   Alkane

2. Clue

   The same single bonds closed into a ring.

   Item

   Cycloalkane

3. Clue

   What is left after removing one hydrogen from an alkane.

   Item

   Alkyl group

4. Clue

   Builds higher alkanes with an even number of carbons.

   Item

   Wurtz

5. Clue

   Heating a higher alkane until it breaks into smaller ones.

   Item

   Pyrolysis

6. Clue

   Formed when an alkane burns with too little air.

   Item

   Carbon black

7. Clue

   The conformation with the hydrogens closest together.

   Item

   Eclipsed

8. Clue

   The conformation with the hydrogens farthest apart.

   Item

   Staggered

9. Clue

   Its presence reverses how HBr adds to an alkene.

   Item

   Peroxide

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation