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Elements

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This element is named for a rock in the ground
a)
selenium
b)
scandium
c)
silicon
d)
antimony
2.
Which element's name originates from a red stone?
a)
beryllium
b)
nobelium
c)
bismuth
d)
berkelium
3.
Which element come from the Arabic word "buraq"?
a)
boron
b)
bismuth
c)
beryllium
d)
barium
4.
Which element was originally known as calx?
a)
californium
b)
carbon
c)
calcium
d)
cadmium
5.
Which element occurs in the orange-yellow mineral called orpiment?
a)
astatine
b)
arsenic
c)
hassium
d)
praseodymium
6.
Which element is named after a mineral, which itself was named after a Russian mine official?
a)
samarium
b)
sulfur
c)
osmium
d)
vanadium
7.
Which element is named after a Greek word that means "stink"?
a)
bromine
b)
boron
c)
barium
d)
bohrium
8.
Which element's compounds "have colorful sheens"?
a)
cesium
b)
chromium
c)
curium
d)
carbon
9.
Which element is named after the Greek word for "pale-green"?
a)
chlorine
b)
cobalt
c)
cesium
d)
californium
10.
Which element "starts white, until its colors come out"?
a)
bismuth
b)
boron
c)
iodine
d)
sodium
11.
Which element "has pointy crystals"?
a)
astatine
b)
zinc
c)
zirconium
d)
aluminum
12.
Which element is "stout", coming from the Greek word for heavy.
a)
barium
b)
boron
c)
bismuth
d)
cobalt
13.
Some elements, such as indium and thallium, are named for _____
a)
their color spectra when burned
b)
the color of their minerals
c)
their color in solution
d)
their common physical properties
14.
They tasted this element and thought it was bitter
a)
calcium
b)
aluminum
c)
gallium
d)
thallium
15.
Which element is named for the Greek word "violet"?
a)
iodine
b)
indium
c)
niobium
d)
iridium
16.
Which element was named for having a "gold-like glitter"
a)
zinc
b)
zirconium
c)
argon
d)
platinum
17.
Which element has a name meaning "shining yellow" while we abbreviate "shining dawn"
a)
gold
b)
americium
c)
francium
d)
actinium
18.
This element, with the Latin name "kalium", comes from burnt wood
a)
potassium
b)
sodium
c)
krypton
d)
berkelium
19.
In medieval Europe, a compound of this element was used as a headache remedy
a)
sodium
b)
natrium
c)
potassium
d)
vanadium
20.
Its symbol is Latin, but its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for "holy metal"
a)
iron
b)
tungsten
c)
fermium
d)
promethium
21.
In most European languages this element is known as "wolfram"
a)
lawrencium
b)
fermium
c)
tungsten
d)
hafnium
22.
This soft grey metal was formerly known as "columbrium"
a)
nickel
b)
niobium
c)
chromium
d)
neodymium
23.
Its name stems from acid transactions
a)
carbon
b)
nitrogen
c)
oxygen
d)
osmium
24.
Its name originates from the French word for saltpeter,  used in fertilizers and gunpowder
a)
carbon
b)
nitrogen
c)
oxygen
d)
nihonium
25.
Its name stems from the Latin word for charcoal
a)
carbon
b)
nitrogen
c)
oxygen
d)
calcium
26.
It's the main constituent of charcoal
a)
carbon
b)
nitrogen
c)
oxygen
d)
cobalt
27.
This element was identified thanks to its distinctive smell
a)
osmium
b)
oxygen
c)
phosphorus
d)
moscovium
28.
A mineral of this element is used in smelting, to make metals flow well
a)
fluorine
b)
flerovium
c)
iron
d)
fermium
29.
It was the first alkali metal found in a stone
a)
sodium
b)
lithium
c)
potassium
d)
rubidium
30.
This element is referred to as the "green" twin
a)
praseodymium
b)
neodymium
c)
palladium
d)
polonium
31.
This element is referred to as the "new" twin
a)
praseodymium
b)
neodymium
c)
neon
d)
dubnium
32.
Which of the noble gases was named by a child?
a)
neon
b)
argon
c)
krypton
d)
xenon
33.
Which element was named after the greek word for "hard to get"?
a)
dysprosium
b)
dubnium
c)
darmstadtium
d)
neodymium
34.
For a long time, ores held this element's secret
a)
lanthanum
b)
lithium
c)
lawrencium
d)
palladium
35.
This element is unstable and will quickly decay
a)
astatine
b)
iron
c)
platinum
d)
potassium
36.
The root words of three radioactive elements all mean _____
a)
"to act"
b)
"ray"
c)
"proton"
d)
"first"
37.
Which element is so rare we found it by making it?
a)
strontium
b)
technetium
c)
protactinium
d)
actinium
38.
The Greeks thought this element might have been lead
a)
moscovium
b)
mercury
c)
osmium
d)
molybdenum
39.
This element was named "little silver" by the Spanish
a)
phosphorus
b)
platinum
c)
potassium
d)
plutonium
40.
This element was named for a prince who founded the Greek city of Thebes
a)
sodium
b)
cerium
c)
cadmium
d)
radium
41.
This element's name means "goblin" in German
a)
silicon
b)
cobalt
c)
copper
d)
copernicium
42.
This element's name stems from the German word for "devil"
a)
nickel
b)
nitrogen
c)
niobium
d)
titanium
43.
This element is named after a hammer-wielding god from Norse mythology
a)
promethium
b)
uranium
c)
thallium
d)
thorium
44.
This element is named after the personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology
a)
erbium
b)
indium
c)
iodine
d)
iridium
45.
The name of this element refers to giant deities of incredible strength
a)
thulium
b)
thallium
c)
tellurium
d)
titanium
46.
This name was derived from the Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from Mount Olympus
a)
thorium
b)
promethium
c)
polonium
d)
praseodymium
47.
This element is referred to as "the one whose light brightens"
a)
promethium
b)
phosphorus
c)
plutonium
d)
protactinium
48.
This element was found in the sun
a)
helium
b)
mercury
c)
halfnium
d)
holmium
49.
It's called "liquid silver" in Latin
a)
hydrogen
b)
platinum
c)
mercury
d)
gallium
50.
This rare and lustrous metal was named after an asteroid
a)
dysprosium
b)
protactinium
c)
praseodymium
d)
palladium
51.
This element was named after a goddess of the earth
a)
erbium
b)
tellurium
c)
europium
d)
terbium
52.
This element was named after the moon
a)
seaborgium
b)
tellurium
c)
selenium
d)
molybdenum
53.
This element is named after a European river
a)
ruthenium
b)
rhenium
c)
rhodium
d)
roentgenium
54.
The name of this element stems from the city and the university where it was discovered
a)
dubnium
b)
berkelium
c)
californium
d)
fermium
55.
Which Swedish village has a mine that was the source of four new elements?
a)
Sigtuna
b)
Terbia
c)
Ytterby
d)
Kiruna
56.
Three elements were named after islands in _____
a)
the Mediterranean Sea
b)
the Atlantic Ocean
c)
the Pacific Ocean
d)
the Indian Ocean
57.
This element was likely named after France, homeland of the discoverer
a)
gallium
b)
fluorine
c)
gadolinium
d)
flerovium
58.
Bohrium, Curium, and several other elements were named after _____
a)
minerals
b)
countries
c)
people
d)
gods
59.
This element's name stems from the Greek word for rose
a)
rhodium
b)
ruthenium
c)
rhenium
d)
rubidium
60.
Which element has essentially the same name "as far back as we know"
a)
sulfur
b)
scandium
c)
sodium
d)
strontium
61.
Which element was said to sound like a spell from Harry Potter?
a)
Copernicium
b)
Ununoctium
c)
Livermorium
d)
Flerovium
62.
This elements name means "dead monk" or "never alone"
a)
antimony
b)
sulfur
c)
samarium
d)
scandium
63.
Lutetium,  Hafnium, and several other elements were named after places in _____
a)
Europe
b)
Asia
c)
America
d)
Africa
64.
The first name, hydrogen, means it likes to form _____
a)
water
b)
electricity
c)
foam
d)
heat