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HISORY OF PERIODIC TABLE

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How did Mendeleev arrange the elements?
a)

by alphabetical 

b)

by density

c)

by melting point

d)

by atomic mass

2.

______arranged elements in a periodic table according to the increasing order of atomic number

a)

John Newlands

b)

Dimitri Mendeleev

c)

Henry Mosely

d)

Lothar Mayer

3.

 In the modern periodic table elements are arranged by:

a)

atomic mass

b)

valence electrons

c)

atomic number

d)

number of isotopes

4.

  Why were there blank spaces left in Mendeleev's periodic table?                                             

a)

 He didn't know what to put there.

b)

  Undiscovered elements not yet known.

c)

Multiple elements could have fit

d)

He forgot to add the elements in

5.

What was Dmitri Mendeleev's greatest contribution to the history of the periodic table?

a)

  He arranged all of the known elements by their atomic number

b)

He realized that there was a pattern of reactivity which repeated every 8 elements

c)

He predicted the existence (and properties) of new elements

d)

He identified the "law of triads" which became the groups

6.

Who called his observation as the “law of triads”?

a)

John Newlands

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Johann Dobereiner

7.

Which scientist arranged the 60 known elements in columns of increasing atomic mass so that each column contained seven elements?

a)

Newlands

b)

Meyer

c)

Mendeleev

d)

Moseley

8.

Who arranged the known elements into horizontal rows of increasing atomic mass leaving gaps for as yet undiscovered elements?

a)

Mendeleev

b)

Meyer

c)

Newlands

d)

Moseley

9.

Who constructed a similar table to Mendeleev based on increasing atomic mass but did not leave gaps?

a)

Moseley

b)

Meyer

c)

Newlands

d)

Dobereiner

10.

Who suggested that the physical and chemical properties were related to the atomic number, rather than atomic mass?

a)

Meyer

b)

Mendeleev

c)

Moseley

d)

Newlands

11.

Whose Periodic Table of Elements was the most accurate?

a)

Newlands'

b)

Mendeleev's

c)

Meyer's

d)

Moseley's

12.

The statement below is a pattern discovered by a scientist in the development of the Periodic Table.

Similar properties are observed at every eight element when the elements are arranged in increasing atomic mass.

a)

Johann W.Dobereiner

b)

John Newlands

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Henry Moseley

13.

Antoine Lavoisier classified all elements according to certain groups such as __________

a)

Gases

b)

Non-metals

c)

Metals

d)

Metal oxides

14.

Who named the arrangement as the Law of Octaves?

a)

Johann W.Dobereiner

b)

John Newlands

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Henry Moseley