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Grade 8 Catch Up

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who believed that atoms were indivisible & indestructible?

a)

Democritus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Lavoisier

d)

Proust

2.

Who identified the first subatomic particle?

a)

Rutherford

b)

Lavoisier

c)

Dalton

d)

Thomson

3.

What is the loss of an electron which results in a positive charge called?

a)

Oxidation

b)

Reduction

c)

Isotopes

d)

Compounds

4.

Who discovered the 'structure' of the atom using the gold foil experiment?

a)

Rutherford

b)

Thomson

c)

Democritus

d)

Lavoisier

5.

What are atoms that contain the same number of protons but have different numbers of neutrons called?

a)

Reduction

b)

Isotopes

c)

Compounds

d)

Oxidation

6.

Who believed that atoms have four core elements?

a)

Democritus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Proust

d)

Lavoisier

7.

Which of the following is the tiniest particle of matter?

a)

Element

b)

Compound

c)

Atom

d)

Substance

8.

Who believed that matter is not created or destroyed during a chemical reaction?

a)

Lavoisier

b)

Proust

c)

Dalton

d)

Rutherford

9.

It is the gain of an electron which results in a negative charge.

a)

Reduction

b)

Oxidation

c)

Proton

d)

Nucleus

10.

These are formed when atoms of different elements combined.

a)

Compounds

b)

Atom

c)

Substance

d)

Element

11.

He believed that a compound is always composed of the same elements, in the same proportion by mass.

a)

Dalton

b)

Proust

c)

Aristotle

d)

Lavoisier

12.

He believed that when two elements form more than one compound, they do so in a ratio of whole numbers.

a)

Lavoisier

b)

Dalton

c)

Aristotle

d)

Thomson