Quiz Name: Structure of Atoms and Molecules
Type: Question and Answer
Instructions: Write the correct answers on a sheet of paper. Click "answer key"
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Question 1: What are atoms of the same element with different numbers of
neutrons called?
Question 2: What is the maximum number of electrons that can go in the 2nd
energy level?
Question 3: The ______ number tells the combining ability of atoms.
Question 4: Atoms that have lost or gained electrons become charged atoms
called_______.
Question 5: What type of bond is formed when electrons are transferred?
Question 6: When a compound contains two elements what does its chemical name
end in?
Question 7: When a chemical name ends in ate what element is present.
Question 8: What part of the atom can be used to identify it?
Question 9: What are the vertical columns on the periodic table called?
Question 10: The atomic number rounded off is called this.
Question 11: What is the average number of neutrons and protons in the nucleus
called?
Question 12: What element is used to set the value of an atomic mass unit?
Question 13: Who was the person who came up with the atomic theory of matter?
Question 14: Neutrons and these are found in the nucleus.
Question 15: The hazy sphere around an atom is called the _______ _______.
Question 16: The third energy level can hold this number of electrons.
Question 17: The number of these can vary for atoms of the same element.
Question 18: What type of bonds are formed when electrons are shared?.
Question 19: The horizontal rows on the periodic table are called _________.
Question 20: What can be found by subtracting the atomic number from the mass
number?
Question 21: These are found on the left side of the periodic table and make up
most of the chart.
Question 22: Do period or group elements have similiar characteristics?
Question 23: What does atomic number tell you the number of?
Question 24: Yes or no all atoms of the same element have the same number of
protons?
Question 25: Yes or no all atoms of the same element have the same atomic mass?
Question 26: Yes or no all atoms of the same element have the same number of
neutrons?
Question 27: Yes or no atoms of different elements always have different number
of protons?
Question 28: Yes or no atoms can be broken down into simpler substances in
ordinary chemical reactions?
Question 29: Smaller parts of the atom called _____ and gluons have been found.
Question 30: What is the negative part of an atom called?
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