Gases Web Quest
Gases Web Quest
Directions: Use the websites provided to find the answers to the questions about the behavior of gases.
Extra Practice: As we work through our unit on the behavior of gases, you will be required to perform many
calculations. The following websites give practice problems for each of the gas laws and will help you prepare
for the Gas Law Test at the end of the unit. You will need a calculator to complete these problems.
1. What is a gas?
5. The Kelvin scale is based on the concept of absolute zero. Explain this concept.
7. What are the boiling points of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Fluorine gas?
8. In what state are these three elements gases at room temperature? (No link for this one, you have to think)
10. What causes the pressure that a gas exerts on the walls of its container?
12. Read the page “Pressure in Gases” and answer the questions at the end. After you have answered the
questions, click “show answers” and record your score.
Score
13. Use the Gas Law Simulation to find the volume of 1 mole of Helium gas when the pressure is 1.47 atm and
the temperature is 287 K?
14. Use the Gas Law Simulation to find the pressure when there is a total volume of 10.0 L of gas with 2 moles
of helium gas and 3 moles of neon gas when the temperature is 300K?
15. Use the Gas Law Simulation to find how the pressure changes when the total volume is increased to 20.0L?
16. What happens to the pressure of a confined gas at a constant temperature when the volume is reduced by
1/2?
17. What happens to the volume of a gas at constant temperature when the pressure is increased?
18. Use the relationship between pressure and volume simulation to see if changing the volume of the gas has a
direct or inverse relationship with pressure when considered at a constant volume. Draw each graph. (Hint:
If the graph of Pressure vs. Volume is a straight line, the relationship is directly proportional, if the graph
of P vs. 1/V is a straight line, the relationship is inversely proportional.)
V 1/V
22. Write the Combined Gas using both words and a formula.
23. Use the Boyle’s Law simulation and describe how the volume and pressure of a gas are related.
24. Use the Charles’s law simulation and describe how the temperature and volume of a gas are related.