At the end of this activity, students should be able to explain why carbon has a unique ability to form so many compounds, describe the importance of carbon compounds to life on Earth, discuss the differences between organic and inorganic chemistry, describe the general types of carbon-carbon bond, explain how bonding affects the shape of organic molecules, derive the empirical formula of an organic compound from experimental data and define and use empirical, molecular and general formulae as well as various types of structural formula.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.