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ATOMIC THEORY
Lesson 1 - Page 9

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  1. Order the following events based on which occurred first, second, third, or fourth (historically).

    A.  Bohr developed a “Planetary Model”
    B.  Dalton created “Rules” of atomic theory
    C.  Rutherford proposed a “nucleus”
    D.  Thomsen created a “plum pudding model”
     
  2. Which of the following early civilizations did not contribute to the understanding of the atomic theory through their philosophers?

    A.  Egypt
    B.  India
    C.  Rome
    D.  Greece
     
  3. Which person introduced the term “atomos?”

    A.  Joseph Black
    B.  Hercules
    C.  Democritus
    D.  Dalton
     
  4. Scientists from what disciple of science helped to make the first “breakthrough” in understanding the atom?

    A.  geology
    B.  atmospheric
    C.  biological
    D.  alchemy

     
  5. Which scientist isolated oxygen and was beheaded during the French Revolution?

    A.  John Dalton
    B.  Ernest Rutherford
    C.  Joseph Gay-Lussac
    D.  Antonine-Laurent de Lavoisier
     
  6. Who was the first person to write about the concept of tiny particles as atoms?

    A.  Ernest Rutherford
    B.  J.J. Thomson
    C.  Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
    D.  John Dalton
     
  7. Dalton’s model of an atom did not include

    A.  nucleus
    B.  protons
    C.  electrons
    D.  neutrons
    E.  all of the above
     
  8. Which two people helped to clarify the difference between a molecule and an atom?

    A.  J.J. Thomson and John Dalton
    B.  Amedeo Avogadro and Stanislao Cannizzaro
    C.  G. Johnstone Stoney and Erwin Schrodinger
    D.  Niels Bohr and James Chadwick
     
  9. The planetary model is attributed to:

    A.  Niels Bohr
    B.  J.J. Thomson
    C.  John Dalton
    D.  Erwin Schrödinger
     
  10. The Electron “cloud” model is attributed to:

    A.  Niels Bohr
    B.  J.J. Thomson
    C.  Louis de Broglie
    D.  Erwin Schrödinger
     
  11. Why did it take so long to understand how an atom works?

     
  12. Can the atomic theory change?

     
  13. What particles are presently thought to make up an atom?  Group them into 2 families?

     
  14. How is research on atoms made today?

     
  15. What is today’s model of the atom referred to?

     

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