Orbitals

Bonds don't form into neat little lines, they form from ___

• balls on sticks

• overlapping electron clouds

• two-dimensional orbits

• velcro-like forces

If you get down there and understand what they look like, chemical bonds are like clumpy globs of ___

• marshmallow

• sticky toffee

• probable electron locations

• sticks and branches

Which moon of Jupiter contains so much water that its entire surface is just ice?

• Io

• Europa

• Ganymede

• Callisto

What is the molecular shape of water?

• linear

• bent

• tetrahedral

• trigonal planar

Bonded atoms within a molecule generally like to be ___

• as close together as possible

• highly electronegative

• partially positive

• as far from each other as possible

If water was suddenly nonpolar, all life on Earth would ___

• instantly die

• freeze

• continue as normal

• flourish

Electrons are both ___

• cables and cords

• particles and waves

• standing waves and sitting waves

• fields and flows

What math function describes the probability that an electron is in a certain place at any moment?

• a wave function

• a linear function

• a quadratic function

• a square root

What is the simplest wave function, describing a spherical pattern of standing waves?

• the s orbital

• the p orbital

• the d orbital

• the f orbital

To allow patterns with more electrons, the standing wave can have different numbers of ___

• nubins

• nodes

• notches

• charges