The Language of Chemical Reactions · Chemical Reactions

Types of Chemical Reactions

Classifying reactions into synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we predict the products of a reaction given only the reactants?
  2. 2What patterns allow us to categorize millions of different reactions into five types?
  3. 3Why do some single replacement reactions fail to occur?

Common Core State Standards

HS-PS1-2
Grade: 9th Grade
Subject: Chemistry
Unit: The Language of Chemical Reactions
Period: Chemical Reactions

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