Quiz History of the Atom

Who discovered the electron?

• Dalton

• Thomson

• Rutherford

• Bohr

What did Rutherford discover in his experiment?

• nucleus

• electrons

• neutrons

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In which model are atoms imagined as tiny balls?

• Dalton

• Thomson

• Rutherford

• Bohr

Who proposed a model with electrons moving in specific layers?

• Dalton

• Thomson

• Rutherford

• Bohr

What does atom mean?

• small

• visible

• indivisible

• particle

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Who is 'responsible' for the 2000-year 'Death of Chemistry'?

• Aristotle

• Democritus

• Thomsen

• Dalton

Rutherford's 'gold-foil' experiment using alpha particle scattering concluded that

• the center of the atom is empty

• atomic mass is spread over the whole atom

• the center of the atom has a negative charge

• most of the atom is empty

In which model are atoms imagined as the solar system?

• Dalton

• Thomson

• Rutherford

• Bohr

• Cloud Model