Periodic Table Quiz

What were the five elements believed by alchemists?

• Earth, air, fire, water, and aether

• Gold, silver, copper, iron, and lead

• Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur

• Mercury, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, and zinc

What did alchemists try to do with low-value materials?

• Turn them into high-value materials

• Sell them for profit

• Use them for experiments

• Throw them away

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Who published The Skeptical Chemyst in 1661?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• John Dalton

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Robert Boyle

What did Robert Boyle demonstrate about fire in 1779?

• Fire requires the presence of oxygen

• Fire is a chemical reaction

• Fire can be created from any material

• Fire is an element itself

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How did Berzelius arrange the elements in his table?

• By atomic mass

• By atomic number

• By chemical reactivity

• By alphabetical order

What did Berzelius leave blank in his table?

• Spaces for isotopes of known elements

• Spaces for elements with unknown properties

• Spaces for predicted new elements

• Spaces for compounds of known elements

What is another name for a column of elements in the periodic table?

• Series

• Group

• Family

• Period

What is the law of octaves?

• Elements have eight valence electrons

• Every eighth element is similar

• Elements repeat every eight periods

• Elements have eight isotopes

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Who organized the elements in a table similar to the modern periodic table?

• Robert Boyle

• Antoine Lavoisier

• John Dalton

• Dmitri Mendeleev

How did Dmitri Mendeleev arrange the elements in his table?

• By increasing atomic numbers

• By chemical reactivity

• By alphabetical order

• By increasing atomic masses