Content Knowledge: CK 2.1

Green chemistry is a field that looks at the sustainability of products and processes designed by people.

Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.

Learn about vehicles that use hydrogen for fuel.

Learn about the four main types of chemical reactions.

Learn how to tell if a chemical reaction has taken place.

Learn about the special conditions that let some chemical reactions take place.

Learn about how catalytic converters make vehicle emissions less harmful.

When deceased whales wash up on shore, people fear they might explode. Gas laws, decomposition reactions and organic chemistry can help us understand this fear.

Learn about the wide variety of fuels used in vehicles.

Learn about the role of yeast in this fun decomposition reaction.

This backgrounder explains what greenhouse gases are and how they contribute to climate change.

Things are heating up! Explore the temperature change that occurs in an exothermic reaction and the role of catalysts is this chemistry activity.

Every time you wash your hands with soap, there are complex chemical reactions taking place.

Hydrogen’s tendency towards combustion is what makes it both a dangerous chemical element and a useful energy source.