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WorksheetsCrash Course Chemistry: History of the Atom
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Around 400 BC, Greek philosopher Democritus proposed that matter is made of indivisible particles called:
Plum pudding
Atomos
Bohr
Electrons
Which French chemist proposed the law of conservation of mass
Antoine Lavoisier
Jean Luke Picard
Jacques Gusto
Alexandre Dumas
Who determined that elements exist as discrete packets of matter?
Charles Darwin
Isaac Newton
Aaron Burr
John Dalton
The light from the discharge tube that was seen at the negative electrode was called -
discharge ray
negative ray
cathode ray
light ray
Thompson called the smallest bits of matter "corpuscles", but we call them -
protons
neutrons
electrons
atoms
Thompson's model of negative electrons randomly distributed through a positively charged matrix is called the -
plum pudding model
atomos
bohr model
gold foil model
_____ was the scientist who developed and used the gold foil experiment.
John Dalton
JJ Thompson
Niels Bohr
Earnest Rutherford
What ideas did Rutherford get from his gold foil experiment?
Atoms are mostly empty space
The positive charge of an atom is concentrated in a very small area
The nucleus is the positive center of the atom
All of the above
The tiny positively charged ions were fundamental particles called
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
Atoms
The "planetary model", showing electrons orbiting the nucleus, was developed by -
Ernest Rutherford
JJ Thompson
Niels Bohr
James Chadwick
Bohr's model indicates that each orbit can hold a specific number of -
electrons
neutrons
protons
atoms
Select all that apply: Heisenberg discovered that it is impossible to know an electon's -
momentum
charge
position
Quantum theory says that the location of the electrons could only be described in terms of
quantity
probability
latitude and longitude
guidance positioning system
The regions where an electron is most likely to be found are called
orbitals
rings
nucleus
families
The quantum model is also known as the-
plum pudding model
cloud model
planetary model
Bohr model
