Understanding Quarks and Hadrons

What is a quark?

• A type of lepton

• A fundamental constituent of matter

• A type of boson

• A composite particle

In what year were quarks first observed?

• 1958

• 1968

• 1978

• 1988

What are protons made up of?

• Two quarks

• Three quarks

• Four quarks

• Five quarks

Which of the following is NOT a type of quark?

• Up

• Down

• Strange

• Photon

What are particles made up of quarks called?

• Leptons

• Bosons

• Hadrons

• Neutrinos

Which of the following particles is made up of quarks?

• Electron

• Proton

• Photon

• Neutrino

What properties do quarks have?

• Electric charge, mass, and spin

• Mass and spin only

• Electric charge and mass only

• Spin only

What is the significance of colour charge in quarks?

• It allows quarks to exist independently

• It means quarks exist solely inside other particles

• It determines the mass of quarks

• It affects the electric charge of quarks

Which of the following is a composite particle?

• Electron

• Neutron

• Photon

• Neutrino

What are the two main categories of particles that make up everything we can see?

• Quarks and leptons

• Quarks and bosons

• Leptons and bosons

• Neutrinos and photons