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Crash Course Chemistry: History of the Atom

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Around 400 BC, Greek philosopher Democritus proposed that matter is made of indivisible particles called:

a)

Plum pudding

b)

Atomos

c)

Bohr

d)

Electrons

2.

Which French chemist proposed the law of conservation of mass

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Jean Luke Picard

c)

Jacques Gusto

d)

Alexandre Dumas

3.

Who determined that elements exist as discrete packets of matter?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Aaron Burr

d)

John Dalton

4.

The light from the discharge tube that was seen at the negative electrode was called -

a)

discharge ray

b)

negative ray

c)

cathode ray

d)

light ray

5.

Thompson called the smallest bits of matter "corpuscles", but we call them -

a)

protons

b)

neutrons

c)

electrons

d)

atoms

6.

Thompson's model of negative electrons randomly distributed through a positively charged matrix is called the -

a)

plum pudding model

b)

atomos

c)

bohr model

d)

gold foil model

7.

_____ was the scientist who developed and used the gold foil experiment.

a)

John Dalton

b)

JJ Thompson

c)

Niels Bohr

d)

Earnest Rutherford

8.

What ideas did Rutherford get from his gold foil experiment?

a)

Atoms are mostly empty space

b)

The positive charge of an atom is concentrated in a very small area

c)

The nucleus is the positive center of the atom

d)

All of the above

9.

The tiny positively charged ions were fundamental particles called

a)

Protons

b)

Neutrons

c)

Electrons

d)

Atoms

10.

The "planetary model", showing electrons orbiting the nucleus, was developed by -

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

JJ Thompson

c)

Niels Bohr

d)

James Chadwick

11.

Bohr's model indicates that each orbit can hold a specific number of -

a)

electrons

b)

neutrons

c)

protons

d)

atoms

12.

Select all that apply: Heisenberg discovered that it is impossible to know an electon's -

a)

momentum

b)

charge

c)

position

13.

Quantum theory says that the location of the electrons could only be described in terms of

a)

quantity

b)

probability

c)

latitude and longitude

d)

guidance positioning system

14.

The regions where an electron is most likely to be found are called

a)

orbitals

b)

rings

c)

nucleus

d)

families

15.

The quantum model is also known as the-

a)

plum pudding model

b)

cloud model

c)

planetary model

d)

Bohr model