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Results for Theories of Matter

1. First of all, who named a single indivisible particle of

matter an atom?

Your Answer: John Dalton

The correct answer was Democritus.

He believed that different atoms are of different sizes, have

regular geometric shapes, and are in constant motion. He
also believed that there is empty space betweeen atoms.

26% of players have answered correctly.

2. Who was a Greek that severely criticized the theory of

atoms in continuous motion and proposed the four-
element theory of matter?

Your Answer: Aristotle

The thory was based on the idea that all matter is made up of
four basic substances: earth, water, air, and fire. Aristotle and
his followers believed that each of these basic substances
had different combinations of four specific qualities: dry,
moist, cold, and hot.

31% of players have answered correctly.

3. Which of the following is not part of John Dalton's theory

about atoms in 1803?
Your Answer: In chemical reactions some of the atoms are destroyed

On contrary, Dalton proposed that in chemical reactions,

atoms join together or separate from each other but are not
destroyed. This explained the law of conservation of mass,
which was observed by earlier scientists.

69% of players have answered correctly.

4. What did J.J. Thomson use in order to measure the

mass of the atom and its electric charge in 1897?

Your Answer: cathode ray tube

J.J. Thomson (1856-1940) used the most primitive tool of the

listed above since he could not have an electronic
microscope or a mass spectrometer at the time. CANDU is a
Canadian-designed nuclear reactor system.

64% of players have answered correctly.

5. In J.J. Thomson's 1897 model the electrons were

located inside the nucleus (although it wasn't yet called a
nucleus.)

Your Answer: False

The correct answer was t.

At 1904, a Japanese scientist Nantaro Nagaoka represented

the atom as a large positively charged sphere surrounded by
a ring of negative electrons and until 1911, there was no
evidence to contradict either theory.

58% of players have answered correctly.

6. What type of particles did Ernest Rutherford use in his

1911 experiment with gold foil?

Your Answer: alpha particles

Alpha particle is basically the nucleus of a helium atom

produced by radioactive decay of uranium.

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7. In 1932. what did James Chadwick theorize that an
atom must contain?

Your Answer: Neutrons

James Chadwick (1891-1974) modified Ernest Rutherford's

model by demonstrating that atomic nuclei must contain
heavy neutral particles in order for the nuclei to have the
proper mass.

64% of players have answered correctly.

8. Who developed the concept of atomic number?

Your Answer: J. Newlands

The correct answer was H. Moseley.

Mendeleev, Newlands, and Meyer worked towards creating a

periodic table, but the concept of atomic number was
developed by Moseley. Moseley's research with X-rays
showed that the nucleus of each element has its own, unique
positive charge. The positive charge increases one by one as
the elements progress through Mendeleev's periodic table.
Moseley was the first to recognize the relationship between
atomic number and nuclear charge.

27% of players have answered correctly.

9. Who is credited with developing the idea of an isotope?

Your Answer: J. Moseley

The correct answer was Frederick Soddy.

Frederick Soddy was the first to propose that the number of

neutrons can vary from atom to atom within the same
element.

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10. Which important scientist created the theory that

electrons are located within a fixed distance from the
nucleus on a certain energy level?

Your Answer: N. Bohr

Energy level is a state with
Results for Inside The Atom

1. Atoms consists of which particles?

Your Answer: Protons-Neutrons-Electrons

Atoms are the smallest units of matter that can take part in a
chemical reaction, and which cannot be broken down
chemically into anything simpler.

97% of players have answered correctly.

2. Atom comes from the Greek word 'atomos' which

means undivided. Now we know that atoms in fact are
divided into different particles(see question 1). Protons and
neutrons can be further divided into even smaller parts.
What do we call these smaller parts that makes up protons
and neutrons?

Your Answer: Neutrinos

The correct answer was Quarks.

The term 'Quark' was first introduced by the famous US

physicist Murray Gell-Mann.

82% of players have answered correctly.

3. There are six types or 'flavours' of quarks. The first five

quarks are called: Up, Down, Top, Bottom and Strange.
What is the name of the last quark?

Your Answer: Charmed

Each of the six quarks also has three varieties or 'colours':

red, green and blue(visual colour is not meant, but the
analogy is useful in many ways).

62% of players have answered correctly.

4. Who discovered the electron?

Your Answer: J.J. Thomson

Thomson was experimenting with currents of electricity inside
empty glass tubes. He was investigating a long-standing
puzzle known as 'cathode rays.' His experiments prompted
him to make a bold proposal: these mysterious rays are
streams of particles much smaller than atoms, they are in fact
minuscule pieces of atoms. He called these particles
'corpuscles,' and suggested that they might make up all of the
matter in atoms.

49% of players have answered correctly.

5. The muon is a particle similar to the electron except for

its mass. How much heavier is the muon compared to the
electron? ---

Your Answer: 97 times

The correct answer was 207 times.

The muon has a half-life of 2 millionths of a second, decaying

into electrons and neutrinos.

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6. What do you call this group of unstable subatomic

particles with masses intermediate between that of the
electron and that of the proton?

Your Answer: Mesons

Mesons are found in cosmic radiation, and is emitted by

nuclei under bombardment by very high-energy particles.

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7. To which group of particles does the electron belong?

Your Answer: Leptons

The electrons in each atom surround the nucleus in

groupings called shells.

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8. True or false: The spin of bosons can only take values

that are whole numbers or zero?

Your Answer: true

Unlike fermions, more than one boson in a system(such as

an atom) can prossess the same energy state. This
statement is known as the Bose-Einstein law.

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9. The baryons form a subclass of the?

Your Answer: [No Answer]

The correct answer was Hadrons & hadrons.

Protons and neutrons both belong to the group of baryons.

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10. The lambda, xi, sigma, and omega particles belong to

which group of highly unstable elementary particles?

Your Answer: gamma

The correct answer was Hyperons & hyperon.

Hyperons includes all the baryons with the exception of

protons and neutrons.

3% of players have answered correctly.