Grade 8 Science Long Quiz

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I. Multiple Choice: Read the questions carefully

and encircle the letter of the BEST answer.

1. What are the subatomic particles? c. Democritus

a. atoms and elements d. J.J Thompson
b. proton and electron
9. James Chadwick is the one who discovered
c. proton, electron, and neutron
.
d. hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
a. proton
2. Which of the following subatomic particles is b. neutron
found outside the nucleus? c. electron
a. proton d. atoms
b. electron
10. Which of the following atomic model below
c. neutron
does not have a subatomic particles?
d. both proton and neutron
a. Plum Pudding Model
3. Which of the following subatomic particles is b. Nuclear Model
found inside the nucleus? c. Solid Sphere Model
a. proton and electron d. Planetary Model
b. proton and neutron
11. Who proposed the planetary model?
c. electron and neutron
a. Niels Bohr
d. electron only
b. Erwin Schrodinger
4. Which of the following subatomic particles c. Ernest Rutherford
has a negative charge? d. John Dalton
a. atoms
12. Who was the first person who said that
b. proton
matter is made up of tiny particles which he
c. neutron
called as “atomos” from the Greek word which
d. electron
means “indivisible”?
5. What is the charged of a neutron? a. John Dalton
a. negatively charged b. Aristotle
b. positively charged c. Erwin Schrodinger
c. no charged d. Democritus
d. all of the above
13. Electrons do not have definite orbits, but are
6. What is the symbol of electron? described by wave functions that represent
a. e- probability distributions of their locations. The
b. e statement above describes what atomic model?
c. e+ a. Quantum Mechanical Model
d. -e b. Plum Pudding Model
c. Nuclear Model
7. Which of the following is the symbol of
d. Planetary Model
neutron?
a. n+ 14. Atoms are described as uniform, positively
b. n- charged spheres with electrons embedded
c. no within them. Which of the following atomic
d. neu model below describes the above statement?
a. Nuclear Model
8. Who discovered electron?
b. Plum Pudding Model
a. Niels Bohr
c. Quantum Mechanical Model
b. Ernest Rutherford
d. Solid Sphere Model

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15. Who proposed the quantum mechanical 24. Which of the following defines the mass
model? number of an atom?
a. Ernest Rutherford a. number of protons + number of electrons
b. Democritus b. number of neutrons + number of electrons
c. Niels Bohr c. number of protons + number of neutrons
d. Erwin Schrodinger d. number of electrons

16. Which of the following is equal in a neutral 25. Which of the following statements below is
atom? FALSE in a neutral atom?
a. Atomic number and number of protons a. Atomic number is equal to the number of
b. Atomic number and mass number protons
c. Number of protons and number of electrons b. Number of electrons is equal to the atomic
d. Both A and C number
c. Atomic number is equal to the mass number
17. What element has 36 protons? d. Number of protons is equal to the number
a. Bromine of electrons
b. Argon
c. Krypton II. Label the parts of an atom.
d. Iodine

18. What is the mass number of Fe (Iron)? 26.

a. 26
b. 55.845
c. 30
d. 56 27.

19. How many number of neutrons does Fe 29.

(Iron) have?
28.
a. 26
b. 55.845
c. 30
d. 56
30.
20. Which of the following elements has 20
neutrons?
a. Titanium III. Using the given, fill in the needed
b. Potassium information.
c. Sodium 31. Name of the Element?
d. Magnesium
Given: No. of protons = 17
21. How to get the number of protons?
a. It is equal to the atomic number of an element 32. Atomic mass?
b. It is equal to the mass number of an element
33. Mass number?
c. It is equal to the number of neutrons of an
element 34. No. of electrons?
d. It is equal to the atomic mass of an element
35. No. of neutrons?
22. How to get the number of neutrons?
a. Add atomic number and mass number
36. Name of the Element?
b. Add atomic number and number of protons
c. Subtract atomic number from mass number 37. No. of protons =
d. Subtract atomic mass from mass number
38. Atomic mass?
23. The atomic number of an element is also
known as its _________. 39. Mass number?
a. atomic mass 40. No. of electrons?
b. change of an atom
c. number of proton Given: No. of neutrons = 22
d. number of neutron

Prepared by: Sir Eduard, Ma’am Laline, Sir Paolo, & Ma’am Gillin