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Origin of Periodic Table

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented chemical symbol?

a)

Jons Jacob Berzellius

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Johannes Dobereiner

d)

Henry Mosely

2.

It shows the arrangement of elements according to their chemical and physical properties.

a)

Moseley's Periodic Table

b)

Meyer's Graph of Periodic Properties

c)

Periodic Table of Elements

d)

Mendeleev's First Periodic Tabe

3.

He plotted the atomic weights of elements on paper tape and wound them, spiral-like, around a cylinder.

a)

John Newlands

b)

Johann Döbereiner

c)

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

4.

He arranged the elements in order of atomic weight designing the law of octaves

a)

John Newlands

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

5.

He proposed the Law of triads.

a)

Johann Döbereiner

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

6.

He arranged the elements according to atomic number.

a)

Johann Döbereiner

b)

 Henry Moseley

c)

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

7.

What is Alchemy?

a)

An early kind of science

b)

Biology

c)

Physics

8.

Alchemists were scientists

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What were most Alchemists obsessed with?

a)

Creating gold

b)

Finding diamonds

c)

Finding copper

d)

Creating dollars

10.

What are the four main steps of the scientific method?

a)

Ask a question

b)

Create a hypothesis

c)

Experiment

d)

Create a conclusion

e)

Be a scientist

11.

Who was the first scientist to give the symbol of Elements.

a)

John Dalton

b)

Joseph Proust

c)

Bohr

d)

Rutherford

12.

Dalton used _________________ in his symbols of elements

a)

Circle

b)

Square

c)

Triangle

d)

Rectangle

13.

The Latin name of Iron is

a)

Iron

b)

France

c)

Franc

d)

Ferrum

14.

What is English name of the element B

a)

Barium

b)

Boron

c)

Beryllium

d)

Bromine

15.

Chemical Symbols represent the ____________________

a)

Name and number of atoms

b)

Initial of Person

c)

Chemical properties of elements

d)

Name of the discover

16.
Who arranged the periodic table by increasing atomic number?
a)
Mendeleev
b)
Rutherford
c)
Bohr
d)
Mosely
17.
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.
18.

Who was known as the father of the periodic table?

a)

John Newland

b)

Dimitri Mendeleev

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Johaan Dobereiner

19.
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 realised 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
20.

How many elements does the periodic table currently have?

(Current = 2018)

a)

60

b)

118

c)

181

d)

227