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Standard Model

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many different types of quarks are there?

a)

6

b)

5

c)

4

d)

3

2.

What are hadrons made of?

a)

quarks

b)

protons and neutrons

c)

electrons, muons, and taos

d)

Fermions

3.

Baryons are

a)

a type of hadron that is made of three quarks.

b)

a type of meson that is made of two quarks.

c)

a type of lepton like the electron and muon

d)

atoms.

4.

What combination of quarks make up a proton?

a)

up, up, down

b)

down, down, up

c)

top, top, bottom

d)

strange, top, up

5.

What combination of quarks makes up a neutron?

a)

up, up, down

b)

down, down, up

c)

top, top, bottom

d)

strange, charm, top

6.

What is the most fundamental make up of physical matter?

a)

up quarks, down quarks, and electrons

b)

protons, neutrons, and electrons

c)

atoms

d)

molecules

7.

An electron is an example of a lepton. What categorizes a particle as being a lepton?

a)

Leptons are not influenced by the strong force (no strong interactions).

b)

Leptons are not influenced by electromagnetic force (no E&M interactions).

c)

Leptons are not influenced by the weak force.

d)

Leptons are made of quarks.

8.

Name the different type of quarks:

a)

up, down, bottom, top, strange, charm

b)

up, down, left, right, side to side

c)

north, south, east, west, up, down

d)

electron, muon, tao, electron-neutrino, muon-neutrino, tao-neutrino

9.

What is the most famous lepton?

a)

muon

b)

up quark

c)

proton

d)

electron

10.

What important force cannot be explained by the standard model?

a)

gravity

b)

electromagnetic

c)

weak-nuclear

d)

strong-nuclear

11.

What exchange particle is responsible for giving fundamental particles mass?

a)

photon

b)

gluon

c)

Z-Boson

d)

Higgs Boson

12.

What is the strong force carrier particle called?

a)

photon

b)

gluon

c)

higgs

d)

Z-boson

13.

What happens when a particle meets its anti-particle?

a)

annihilation of both particles

b)

They combined to form a quark

c)

They combined and form matter.

d)

The repel and move away.

14.

What exchange particle is responsible for the electromagnetic interactions?

a)

W-boson

b)

Z-boson

c)

higgs

d)

photon

15.

What exchange particle is responsible for the strong interaction?

a)

gluon

b)

photon

c)

Z-Boson

d)

Higgs Boson

16.

What exchange particle is responsible for decays? It is the reason the sun shines.

a)

W-boson

b)

photon

c)

higgs

d)

gluon

17.

Why is physical matter only made of 1st generation particles?

a)

2nd and 3rd generation particles decay into 1st generation particles because they are unstable.

b)

Magic