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The atom (DHS Test)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many Known elements are there?

a)

118

b)

115

c)

120

d)

215

2.

What is a particle?

a)

A small piece or fragment

b)

A basic unit of matter

c)

Pure chemical substance

d)

a large part

3.

What is an atom?

a)

A small piece of fragment

b)

A basic unit of matter

c)

Pure chemical substance

d)

a measurement

4.

What is an element?

a)

A small piece of fragment

b)

A basic unit of matter

c)

Pure chemical substance of one type of atom

d)

something you can use to identify an atom

5.

What is a property?

a)

Something you can use to identify an element.

b)

A basic unit of matter

c)

Pure chemical substance

d)

something you can use to identify an atom

6.

Columns in the periodic table are called?

a)

Groups

b)

Periods

7.

Rows in the periodic table are called?

a)

Groups

b)

Periods

8.

The two main groups of elements are?

a)

Groups and rows

b)

Metals and non metals

c)

Electrons and protons

d)

Alkaline and acid

9.

The parts of the atom are?

a)

Nucleus, protons and electrons

b)

Protons, electrons and necleus

c)

Neutrons, protons and electrons

d)

Neutrons, elctrons and nucleus

10.

The nucleus contains?

a)

protons and electrons

b)

protons and neutrons

c)

neutrons and electrons

d)

protons

11.

The charge of a proton is

(a)  

12.

The charge of a electron is

(a)  

13.

atoms are

a)

electrically positive

b)

electrically neutral

c)

electrically negative

d)

electrical

14.

The atomic number is?

a)

The protons plus the neutrons

b)

The number of protons and neutrons (they're the same)

c)

The number of protons and electrons (they're the same)

d)

Protons plus the electrons

15.

The mass number is

a)

the fixed number of protons

b)

the protons plus the neutrons

c)

protons plus electrons

d)

fixed number of neutrons

16.

the periodic table is set it terms of atomic number, so Groups have similar

a)

Chemical properties and the same number of electrons in the middle shell

b)

Chemical properties and a similar number of electrons in the valence shell

c)

Chemical properties and the same number of protons in the valence shell

d)

Chemical properties and the same number of electrons in the valence shell

17.

The maximum number of electrons in each shell is

a)

2,8,18,32

b)

2,8,8,18

c)

2,2,8,8

d)

2,18,8,22

18.

atoms are most stable when

a)

their valence shells are incomplete

b)

their valence shells are full

c)

their necleus is unbalanced

d)

they become an ion

19.

ionic bonds are between

a)

metals and metalloids

b)

Metals and metals

c)

nonmetals and nonmetals

d)

metals and nonmetals

20.

During ionic bonding

a)

Metals gain electrons and

non metals lose electrons

b)

Metals gain protons and

non metals lose protons

c)

Metals lose electrons and

non metals gain electrons

d)

Metals lose electrons and

non metals gain protons

21.

When metals become positive and nonmetals become negative,how does ionic bonding occur

a)

The ions (unbalanced atoms) are oppositively charged and therefore attract

b)

The ions (unbalanced atoms) are similarly charged and therefore attract

22.

Covalent bonding is between

a)

Nonmetals and metals

b)

Nonmetals and metalloids

c)

Nonmetals and nonmetals

d)

metals and metalloids

23.

Covalet bonding is when

a)

atoms share protons so that they have full nuclei

b)

atoms share electrons so that they have full valence shells

c)

particles share electrons so that they have full valence shells

d)

atoms loseelectrons so that they have empty valence shells

24.

(..........)'s don't conduct elctricity with the exception of (........)

a)

metals, carbon

b)

metals, metalloids

c)

nonmetals, carbon

d)

elements,metals

25.

Metals (.........) when heated

a)

become smaller

b)

expand

c)

curve

d)

become thinner