Quiz Name: Acids, Bases and Salts 
Type: Question and Answer 
Instructions: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Check your answers by clicking on “answer key” below the last question.

Question 1: What type of taste do acids have?


Question 2: Acids are produced when starches and these break down.


Question 3: What type of litmus paper is used to test for acids?


Question 4: What do acids produce in aqueous solutions?


Question 5: If an acid produces a large number of H ions it is this.


Question 6: An acid will react with this.


Question 7: What acid is used in fertilizers and photographic film?


Question 8: Where in your body can HCl be found?


Question 9: What acid is used in making dyes and plastics?


Question 10: Ammonia and lye are both this type of substance?


Question 11: Bases have this type of taste.


Question 12: Bases are _____ to the touch.


Question 13: Since bases attack the skin they are this.


Question 14: A base can neutralize a _____.


Question 15:  What ion is formed when a base ionizes in water?


Question 16: What element do all acids contain?


Question 17: These type of bases are very soluble and contain high numbers of OH ions.


Question 18: The pH scale goes from 0 to this. 


Question 19: Materials with a pH less than 7 are this.


Question 20: Materials with a pH more than 7 are this.


Question 21: The closer to this the stronger the acid. 


Question 22: When acids are added to bases this and water are produced.


Question 23: If there are more OH ions than H ions the solution is this.


Question 24: A solution with a pH of 7 is this.


Question 25: Calcium hydroxide is a moderately strong _________.


Question 26: (yes or no) All substances that contain OH are bases.

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