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6A Development of Atomic Theory

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 52mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first person to come up with the idea of the atom?

a)

Democritus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Dalton

d)

Thomson

2.

Who created the plum pudding model of the atom?

a)

Rutherford and the plums were protons

b)

Rutherford and the plums were electrons

c)

Thomson and the plums were protons

d)

Thomson and the plums were electrons

3.

The cathode-ray tube was used to discover the ____ by ____.

a)

Electron by Thomson

b)

Electron by Ruthefeord

c)

Proton by Thomson

d)

Proton by Rutherford

4.

Rutherford discovered there were three main types of radiation. Which of the three types was used in his famous gold foil experiment?

a)

alpha

b)

beta

c)

gamma

d)

all three types

5.

Why did most of the radiation pass through the gold foil in the experiment?

a)

Nucleus is large and most of atom is empty space.

b)

Nucleus is large and little of atom is empty space.

c)

Nucleus is small and most of atom is empty space.

d)

Nucleus is small and little of atom is empty space.

6.

Neils Bohr stated that electrons moved around the nucleus at fixed distances. This Bohr model was also called the

a)

Planetary model

b)

Plum Pudding model

c)

Nuclear model

d)

Quantum Mechanical Model

7.

Created the concept of orbitals

a)

Heisenberg

b)

de Broglie

c)

Bohr

d)

Schrodinger

8.

Which of the following places the models of the atom from most historic to most recent.

a)

solid sphere, plum pudding, nuclear, planetary, quantum mechanical

b)

solid sphere, plum pudding, planetary, quantum mechanical, nuclear

c)

plum pudding, nuclear, solid sphere, quantum mechanical, planetary

d)

plum pudding, solid sphere, planetary, quantum mechanical, nuclear

9.
Discovered the nucleus of the atom through the Gold Foil Experiment
a)
Rutherford
b)
Chadwick
c)
Thomson
d)
Dalton
10.
Proposed the Modern Electron Cloud Model of the atom
a)
Schrodinger & Heisenberg
b)
Dalton
c)
Chadwick
d)
Rutherford
11.
Discovered the electron within the atom
a)
Thomson
b)
Chadwick 
c)
Schrodinger & Heisenberg
d)
Dalton
12.
Created the Planetary Model of the atom
a)
Bohr
b)
Dalton
c)
Rutherford
d)
Chadwick
13.
Believed that atoms of the same element are identical to each other
a)
Bohr
b)
Rutherford
c)
Dalton
d)
Thomson
14.
Calculation used to find the number of neutrons in an atom
a)
Atomic Mass - Atomic Number
b)
Atomic Number - Atomic Mass
c)
Atomic Mass - Electrons
d)
none of these
15.

Who ran the gold-foil experiment?

a)

Rutherford

b)

Thomson

c)

Democritus

d)

Dalton

16.

This is an example of which model of the atom?

a)

Rutherford's Model

b)

Plum Pudding Model

c)

Atomic Model

d)

Bohr's Model

17.

What experiment did J.J. Thomson run to develop his model of the atom?

a)

Gold-Foil Experiment

b)

Definite Proportion Experiment

c)

Cathode-Ray Tube Experiment

d)

No experimentation was done

18.

Who developed this model of the atom?

a)

Plum Pudding Model

b)

J.J. Thomson

c)

Proto-Electron Model

d)

Ernest Rutherford

19.

What did the cathode-ray tube experiment prove?

a)

Atoms could be broken into smaller parts

b)

Atoms caused the changes in matter

c)

Atoms join to create compounds

d)

The center of an atom has a nucleus

20.

What did Ernest Rutherford discover with his experiments?

a)

Atom

b)

Electron

c)

Nucleus

d)

Kinetic Energy

21.

Where did Rutherford propose that most of the mass of an atom resided?

a)

In the middle of the atom

b)

Along the edge of the atom

c)

Scattered throughout the atom

d)

Orbiting around the atom

22.
Place the following scientists in order, from earliest to latest: 
A) Ernest Rutherford
B) J.J. Thomson
C) John Dalton
a)
B,C,A
b)
C,A,B
c)
A,C,B
d)
C,B,A
23.
Which scientist proposed a model of the atom in which the electrons are orbiting at different levels?
a)
Niels Bohr
b)
James Chadwick
c)
John Dalton
d)
Ernest Rutherford
24.
Which scientist saw the atom as a positively charged sphere with negative particles (electrons) embedded within?
a)
J.J. Thomson
b)
Niels Bohr
c)
John Dalton
d)
Ernest Rutherford
25.
Bohr's model of the atom proposed that ___.
a)
electrons move around the nucleus in fixed orbits
b)
neutrons move around the nucleus
c)
neutrons do not exist, but are just paired protons and electrons
d)
the nucleus spins
26.
J.J. Thomson's model of the atom is given this name because he believed that electrons were spread randomly throughout a positive sphere.
a)
plum pudding model
b)
orbital model
c)
Thomson's model
d)
plasma model
27.
One of the Dalton's conclusions concerning his atomic theory was that all the atoms of the same element are ___.
a)
the same
b)
different
c)
combined
d)
reacted
28.
Electron cloud is based on
a)
Quantum Mechanics
b)
Gold Foil Experiment
c)
Matter is made up of small particles called atoms
d)
Nuclear Theory
29.
The Gold Foil experiment was done by __________.
a)
Chadwick
b)
Bohr
c)
Rutherford
d)
Thomson
30.
What scientist first developed 4 rules for atomic theory, and helped kick start modern chemistry?
a)
Thomson
b)
Rutherford
c)
Dalton
d)
Democritus
31.
This scientist performed the Cathode Ray Tube experiment and proposed the Plum Pudding Model of the atom
a)
Dalton
b)
Chadwick
c)
Thomson
d)
Democritus
32.
He developed the planetary model of the atom.
a)
Rutherford
b)
Bohr
c)
Chadwick
d)
Dalton
33.
His model of the atom is referred to as the Nuclear atom.
a)
Chadwick
b)
Dalton
c)
Rutherford
d)
Robert Millikan