Question

Fill in the blanks below using vocabulary terms-reactants, products, limiting reactant, excess reactant.

Just as ingredients can be put together to make a new food, substances can combine during a chemical reaction to produce new substances. The substances that undergo change are called____________. The new substances are called_______.
Sometimes during a chemical reaction, one type of reactant will be used up before the other reactants. This reactant is the________. The reactant that is left over is called the________reactant.

Answer 1

The vocabulary terms are in the correct order.

Step-by-step explanation:

The substances that undergo chang are called reactants. They are what create the products. Reactants are on the left side of the equation while the products are on the right side of the equation. The new substances are called products. In other words, what is produced? The products are produced. The reactant that will be used up first is called a limiting reactant. Why? Because it is what limits the reaction. It determines how much products can be made. The reactant that is left over then, is called the excess reactant. That is what is left in excess and does not determine how much product is made.