What is a hydrocarbon?

What are alkanes?

What happens to the properties of hydrocarbons as the chain gets shorter?

What is complete combustion?

What is crude oil?

What is a fossil fuel?

Explain how fractional distillation separates a hydrocarbon into factions?

What are organic compounds?

What is a homologous series?

What is catalytic/steam cracking?

What are the two methods of cracking?

What are alkenes?

What is the incomplete combustion of alkenes?

What is an addition reaction?

What is the hydrogenation of an alkene and what catalyst does in need?

What is the halogenation of an alkene and what catalyst does in need?

How do you turn an alkene into an alcohol and what catalyst does in need?

What are polymers?

Explain how addition polymers are made?

What are alcohols?

What are the properties of alcohols?

What are the two main ways of making alcohol?

What is a carboxylic acid?

What are the properties of a carboxylic acid?

Explain what happens when carboxylic acids dissolve in water?

What is an ester?

Explain condensation polymerisation?

How is a polypeptide formed?

How is a polyester formed?

What are the differences between addition polymerisation and condensation polymerisation?

What is the formula for amino acids?

How can amino acids form proteins?

What are DNA made out of?

How can sugars form polymers?