PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Long Test

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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer.

1. This cosmic stage is responsible for the formation of the light elements in the universe.
a. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis c. Stellar formation and evolution
b. Stellar explosion d. Supernova

2. A point in space and/or a moment in time where the universe was infinitely hot and dense.
a. Inflation c. Nucleosynthesis
b. Recombination d. Singularity

3. A reaction in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and disappear, releasing energy.
a. Singularity c. Annihilation
b. Inflation d. Recombination

4. It is responsible for the formation of elements heavier than Be and Fe.

a. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis c. Stellar formation and evolution
b. Stellar explosion d. Supernova

5. An exponential expansion of space in the early universe.

a. Singularity c. Annihilation
b. Inflation d. Recombination

6. He argued that there was an infinite number of elementary natural substances in the form of infinitesimally small
particles that combined to comprise the different things in the universe.
a. Anaxagoras c. Democritus
b. Empedocles d. Plato

7. According to Plato’s Geometric Shapes, Earth is represented by what shape?

a. Cube c. Icosahedron
b. Octahedron d. Tetrahedron

8. According to Empedocles, when Fire and Air combine together, you can form _______?
a. Hot c. Dry
b. Wet d. Cold

9. According to Aristotle, it is the fifth element that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.
a. Aether c. Wet
b. Dry d. Water

10. The first one to use the term atom.

a. Anaxagoras c. Democritus
b. Empedocles d. Plato

11. The main purpose of alchemy is to transform metals into pure gold and to find the ________.
a. 118 elements c. Elixir of life
b. Other metals d. Aether

12. The first person to describe arsenic in its purest form?

a. Albertus Magnus c. Geber
b. Zosimus d. Paracelsus

13. He believed that true purpose of alchemy is to cure diseases.

a. Albertus Magnus c. Geber
b. Zosimus d. Paracelsus
14. This subatomic particle is inside the nucleus and considered as the positively charged particle.
a. Atom c. Proton
b. Electron d. Neutron

15. He discovered the electron in 1897.

a. Ernest Rutherford c. James Chadwick
b. J.J. Thomson d. John Dalton

16. The number of protons is equal to the ________ of an element.

a. Atomic Mass c. Atomic Number
b. Isotopes d. Mass Number

17. What do you call the model of an atom proposed by Ernest Rutherford?
a. Solid Sphere Model c. Plum Pudding Model
b. Nuclear Model d. Quantum Model

18. He stated that electrons do not move in set paths around the nucleus, but in waves.
a. John Dalton c. Neils Bohr
b. Erwin Schrodinger d. J.J. Thomson

19. The negatively charged particle of an atom.

a. Atom c. Proton
b. Electron d. Neutron

20. He discovered the electron in 1932.

c. Ernest Rutherford c. James Chadwick
d. J.J. Thomson d. John Dalton

II. COMPLETION. Complete the data. (21- 25.)

Particle Symbol Charge Location
Proton p+ Nucleus
Neutron 0
Electron 1-

III. ATOMIC NUMBER and MASS NUMBER

Name of Symbol Atomic Mass Number Protons Neutrons Electrons
Element Number
Cu 29 35 29
Tin Sn 50 69
I 53 127 53
Fluorine 9 10 9
Lead 82 207 82 82
U 238 92
Silicon 14 14
Lithium 7 3 3