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A&P System Review for Nursing Students

Fluids, Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance

Exercise 4 Covalent bonds:

1. Draw the structure for each of the compounds listed, indicating the covalent bonds.

a. ethylene C

b. Carbon dioxide CO

c. Water H

EXERCISE 5 Ions:

1. What ions do you predict from the following elements, based on their position in the periodic

table:

a. Magnesium

b. Oxygen

c. Nitrogen

d. Hydrogen

2. Pick one of the ions that you predicted and draw (or write) the arrangement of electrons on the

following diagram:

Shell

n=3

n=2

n=1

3. Why do Group 6A elements tend to gain two electrons?

4. Why do Group 1A elements tend to lose an electron?

Exercise 6 pH:

1. Determine the pH of the following compounds’

a. HCl, pOH = 12

b. NH

, pOH = 5

c. H

O, pOH = 7

Exercise 7 Electrolytes:

1. Name the two main types of transport in the body.

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