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What is an element?

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the greek philosopher who named particles as atoms?

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Democritus

2.

What is an atom?

a)

Smallest possible piece of rock

b)

Smallest possible particle

c)

Largest possible particle

d)

Largest piece of rock

3.

How many elements are there?

a)

Over 100

b)

Over 1000

c)

Under 10

4.

An element is.....

a)

...made up of lots of atoms

b)

... is more than one kind of atom

c)

...made up of one kind of atom

d)

.... made of one atom

5.

Why is water not an element?

a)

It is made of hydrogen and carbon atoms

b)

It is made of oxygen and hydrogen atoms

c)

It is made of oxygen atoms

d)

It is made of hydrogen atoms

6.

What is this?

a)

Periodic Chart

b)

Element table

c)

Element chart

d)

Periodic table

7.

The letters in each box on the periodic table are called...

a)

...chemical letters

b)

...chemical symbols

c)

...chemical signs

d)

...chemicals

8.

Elements are ordered in the periodic table based on their ...

a)

... atomic number

b)

... chemical symbol

c)

.... date of discovery

d)

... size

9.

What is the chemical element of the symbol B?

a)

Beryllium

b)

Barium

c)

Boron

d)

Bromine

10.

What is the chemical element with the symbol Se

a)

Selenium

b)

Scandium

c)

Seaborgium

d)

Sulfur

11.

What is the element with the symbol Au

a)

Aluminium

b)

Gold

c)

Actinium

d)

Astatine

12.

What is the element with the chemical symbol Na?

a)

Neon

b)

Nitrogen

c)

Neptunium

d)

Sodium

13.

What element has the atomic number 23?

a)

Vanadium

b)

Magnesium

c)

Chromium

d)

Silicon

14.

What element has the atomic number 99?

a)

Holmium

b)

Einsteinium

c)

Lutetium

d)

Californium

15.

Which element is an alkali metal?

a)

Chromium

b)

Chlorine

c)

Carbon

d)

Caesium