Lesson · S.3.3

Chemical reactions

Reactants, products, the main reaction types, and how to balance an equation so atoms are conserved, the way the TEAS presents them.

ObjectiveS.3.3Read2 minExam weightChemistry ≈ 18% of Science

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What you will be able to do

  • Identify reactants and products in a chemical equation.
  • Name a reaction as synthesis, decomposition, replacement, or combustion from its pattern.
  • Balance a chemical equation by adjusting coefficients.

What the lesson concludes

  • Reactants sit on the left of the arrow, products on the right.
  • Conservation of mass means atom totals must match on both sides of a balanced equation.
  • Synthesis combines, decomposition breaks apart, replacement reactions swap partners.
  • Combustion reacts a substance with oxygen and releases heat.
  • Balance by adjusting coefficients only, never the subscripts inside a formula.