Carbon and its compounds are one of the most important chapters in Class 10 Chemistry because they explain the chemistry of the compounds present in fuels, food, medicines, plastics, soaps, and many everyday materials. This chapter builds the foundation for understanding covalent bonding, functional groups, homologous series, and the special nature of carbon compounds, which are frequently tested in CBSE board exams.
For board preparation, this chapter is highly scoring because many questions are direct, concept-based, and application-oriented. Topics such as tetravalency of carbon, catenation, saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, ethanol, ethanoic acid, soaps and detergents, and the distinction between covalent and ionic compounds are repeatedly asked in MCQs and assertion-based questions.
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Q1. Which property of carbon is mainly responsible for the formation of a very large number of compounds?
Divalent nature
Tetravalency and catenation
High atomic mass
Metallic character
Q2. The general formula of alkanes is:
Q3. Which of the following is an unsaturated hydrocarbon?
Methane
Ethane
Ethene
Propane
Q4. The IUPAC name of is:
Methanol
Ethanol
Ethanoic acid
Ethanal
Q5. Which functional group is present in ethanoic acid?
Q6. Which compound gives effervescence with baking soda due to the release of ?
Ethanol
Ethanoic acid
Methane
Ethene
Q7. Which of the following is a saturated hydrocarbon?
Ethene
Ethyne
Propane
Benzene
Q8. The chemical formula of methane is:
Q9. Which bond is present in ethene?
Only single bond
Double bond
Triple bond
Ionic bond
Q10. Which of the following is used in the cleaning action of soaps?
Hard water
Micelle formation
Evaporation
Sublimation
Q11. The functional group present in alcohols is:
Q12. Which of the following is the correct formula of ethanoic acid?
Q13. Carbon compounds are usually poor conductors of electricity because they:
are always gases
contain covalent bonds
are always insoluble in water
have high density
Q14. Which of the following is an example of a homologous series?
, ,
, ,
, ,
, ,
Q15. What is the molecular formula of ethane?
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