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Q1 Week 6 At Theory
Q1 Week 6 Atomic Theory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In Science, matter refers to a substance that has _____ and occupies space. | mass |
| The ______ theory explains that matter is composed of tiny units known as atoms. | atomic |
| Who was the Greek philosopher introduced the idea of atom as the basic building block of matter? He gave them the name atomos. | Democritus |
| ______ did not believe in the atomic theory. He thought that all materials on Earth were not made of atoms, but of the four elements, Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. | Aristotle |
| Around 1800, the English chemist John _____ brought back Democritus’ ancient idea of the atom. | Dalton |
| In Dalton's theory he said, atoms are the _____ particles of matter. They cannot be divided into smaller particles. They cannot be created, or destroyed. | smallest |
| Dalton also said in his theory that all atoms of the same element are alike and have the same _______. | mass |
| It wasn’t until _____ that a scientist named Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson discovered that there are smaller particles within the atom. | 1897 |
| Thomson called the particles he discovered “_______,” but they were later renamed electrons. | corpuscles |
| Ernest _______ was a student of JJ Thomson. He aimed a beam of alpha particles (radioactive) at a sheet of very thin gold foil. | Rutherford |
| Rutherford called the area of concentrated positive charge that he found in his gold foil experiment the ______. | nucleus |
| Niels Bohr was a student of Rutherford. In 1913, Bohr published a description of a more detailed model of the atom. His model identified more clearly where _____ could be found. | electrons |