Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table. AQA Trilogy GCSE Chemistry

Question 1

Which scientist discovered the nucleus and proved the plum pudding model was wrong?

Accepted Answer

Ernest Rutherford

Question 2

Which group are the alkali metals?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 3

What separating technique would be used to separate a liquid from a mixture of liquids?

Accepted Answer

fractional distillation

Question 4

How many neutrons does the following element have?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 5

What two sub-atomic particles are found in the nucleus?

Accepted Answer

protons and neutrons

Question 6

An atom is has no overall charge because...

Accepted Answer

....it has the same number of protons and electrons

Question 7

What separating technique would be used to separate a mixture of compounds in solution?

Accepted Answer

chromatography

Question 8

What relative mass does a electron have?

Accepted Answer

1/1840

Question 9

The mass number of an element tells you the number of what in an atom?

Accepted Answer

Protons and Neutrons

Question 10

A piece of lithium is added to a beaker of water. The solution formed will be .....

Accepted Answer

Alkali

Question 11

When chlorine is added to sodium bromide solution, one product is bromine. Name the other.

Accepted Answer

sodium chloride

Question 12

Which scientist discovered the nucleus and proved the plum pudding model was wrong?

Accepted Answer

Ernest Rutherford

Question 13

Silicon has 14 electrons in total. What is its electronic structure?

Accepted Answer

2, 8, 4

Question 14

Which of these is not a true of the group 0 elements?

Accepted Answer

colourful gasses

Question 15

What separation technique would this piece of equipment be used for?

Accepted Answer

distillation

Question 16

Why are group 0: the noble gases all nonreactive?

Accepted Answer

because they have a full outer shell of electrons

Question 17

What separation technique would this piece of equipment be used for?

Accepted Answer

filtration

Question 18

How many electrons do the group 0 elements have in their outer shell?

Accepted Answer

8

Question 19

Name the gas released when group 1 elements react with water.

Accepted Answer

hydrogen

Question 20

What separating technique would be used to separate a liquid and an insoluble solid?

Accepted Answer

filtration

Question 21

What separating technique would be used to separate a liquid from a solution?

Accepted Answer

simple distillation

Question 22

What separation technique would this piece of equipment be used for?

Accepted Answer

chromatography

Question 23

which group are the noble gases?

Accepted Answer

0

Question 24

What colour and state is iodine at room temperature and pressure?

Accepted Answer

purple solid

Question 25

name the reaction when a more reactive halogen replaces a less reactive halogen from a salt.

Accepted Answer

displacement reaction

Question 26

What colour and state is chlorine at room temperature and pressure?

Accepted Answer

green gas

Question 27

Name the Russian scientist who created a successful periodic table of the elements in 1869.

Accepted Answer

Mendeleev

Question 28

The atomic number of an element tells you the number of what in an atom?

Accepted Answer

Protons, which is the same number of electrons.

Question 29

What charge do electrons have?

Accepted Answer

Negative (-)

Question 30

What is the chemical symbol for copper?

Accepted Answer

Cu

Question 31

Which of these shows the correct electronic configuration of a sodium atom?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 32

A compound is...

Accepted Answer

...two or more different atoms bonded together

Question 33

What charge do neutrons have?

Accepted Answer

Neutral

Question 34

What relative mass does a neutron have?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 35

A substance made of only type of atom is known as what?

Accepted Answer

an element

Question 36

Which scientist used the cathode ray tube to electrons in 1897?

Accepted Answer

J. J. Thompson

Question 37

Sodium has 11 electrons, what is its electronic configuration?

Accepted Answer

2, 8, 1

Question 38

Which scientist described atoms as solid spheres of different elements?

Accepted Answer

John Dalton

Question 39

Which scientist suggested that electrons in atoms were contained in shells orbiting the nucleus

Accepted Answer

Neils Bohr

Question 40

How many protons does the following element have?

Accepted Answer

6

Question 41

Which of these shows the correct electronic configuration of a sodium ion?

Accepted Answer

C

Question 42

What are all substance made of?

Accepted Answer

Atoms

Question 43

What colour and state is fluorine at room temperature and pressure?

Accepted Answer

yellow gas

Question 44

What charge do protons have?

Accepted Answer

Positive (+)

Question 45

When elements react, what are given away, taken or shared?

Accepted Answer

electrons

Question 46

For two atoms to be different elements they have to have a different number of what?

Accepted Answer

protons

Question 47

what would you see when all of the alkali metals react?

Accepted Answer

fizzing/bubbles

Question 48

What three sub-atomic particles are atoms made of?

Accepted Answer

protons, neutrons and electrons

Question 49

Which group are the halogens?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 50

The alkali metals get more reactive....

Accepted Answer

...as you go down the group

Question 51

What group does this element belong to?

Accepted Answer

Group 1

Question 52

What colour and state is bromine at room temperature and pressure?

Accepted Answer

brown liquid

Question 53

What separation technique would this piece of equipment be used for?

Accepted Answer

crystallisation

Question 54

The halogens get more reactive....

Accepted Answer

...as you go up the group

Question 55

Which element has the symbol S

Accepted Answer

Sulfur

Question 56

What relative mass does a proton have?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 57

Which of these is not a property of the alkali metals

Accepted Answer

more dense than water

Question 58

What group does this element belong to?

Accepted Answer

Group 2

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