Periodic Table Quiz

Who believed it was possible to change one element into another?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Jacob Berzelius

• Johann Döbereiner

• Robert Boyle

Who demonstrated that combustion requires oxygen and made one of the first lists of known elements?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Jacob Berzelius

• Johann Döbereiner

• Robert Boyle

Who developed a system of symbols for naming the elements?

• Jacob Berzelius

• Robert Boyle

• Johann Döbereiner

• Antoine Lavoisier

Who noticed that elements seem to come in groups of three, all with similar properties?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Robert Boyle

• Johann Döbereiner

• Jacob Berzelius

Who arranged elements in order by atomic mass and discovered similar pairs of elements positioned every eight elements?

• Robert Boyle

• Antoine Lavoisier

• John Newlands

• Jacob Berzelius

Who organized the elements in a table much like our modern periodic table?

• John Newlands

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Henry Moseley

• Johann Döbereiner

Who discovered a way to determine the atomic number for each element?

• John Newlands

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Henry Moseley

• Johann Döbereiner

What is a column of elements in the periodic table having the same number of valence electron arrangement called?

• Family

• Group

• Triad

• Period