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Grades 9–10 · Chemistry

Chemistry quiz, Grades 9–10: Atomic structure

This quiz helps revise “Atomic structure” in Chemistry for grades 9–10. It has 25 questions in five categories: Inside an Atom, Atomic Numbers, Energy Levels, Charged Atoms, How We Found Out. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 14–16
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Atomic structure

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Inside an Atom

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the pictured negatively charged particle outside an atom's centre called?

  2. 200

    What is the tiny, dense centre of an atom called?

  3. 300

    Which particle in an…

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  4. 400

    Which particle in an…

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  5. 500

    What one word names…

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Atomic Numbers

  1. 100

    An atom has five positively charged particles. What is its atomic number?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    An atom's centre has eight positive and eight neutral particles. How many are there altogether?

  3. 300

    The centre of a…

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  4. 400

    How many negatively charged…

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  5. 500

    Two atoms each have…

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Energy Levels

  1. 100

    What is the maximum number of negative particles in the first energy level?

  2. 200

    A neutral atom has two particles in its first level and one in its second. Which element is it?

  3. 300

    A neutral sodium atom…

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  4. 400

    An atom has three…

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  5. 500

    A neutral atom's particles…

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Charged Atoms

  1. 100

    What do we call an atom that has gained or lost a negative particle?

  2. 200

    What do we call a positively charged atom that has lost a negative particle?

  3. 300

    What do we call…

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  4. 400

    A neutral calcium atom…

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  5. 500

    A particle has 12…

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How We Found Out

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which scientist used cathode rays in 1897 to show that atoms contain tiny negative particles?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which metal was the pictured ultra-thin foil made from in the famous particle-scattering experiment?

  3. 300

    Which scientist explained sharply…

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  4. 400

    Most particles passed straight…

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  5. 500

    Which scientist proposed a…

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