Four Forces
Element-ary
Deeper, Deeper (into the nucleus)
Atomic Miscellany
Madam, I'm Atom
100

The 4 forces of creation that we have studied so far up to and including module 13.

What are gravitational force, electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force?

100
The definition of an element.
What is "a substance with atoms that all have the same number of protons"?
100
These particles hold quarks together.
What are gluons?
100
This particle's mass is 1 atomic mass unit (amu).
What is a proton?
100

This determines how an atom gets its atomic number.

What is the number of protons in an atom?

200

This is another name for the weak force and the electromagnetic force together.

What is the electroweak force?

200
This is how an element usually gets its symbol.

What is the first one or two letters in in it's name?


200
This is what an atom with an unstable nucleus must do.
What is decay?
200
The number of electrons in each of the first 5 electron orbits.
What is 2, 8, 18, 32, 50?
200
These particles of matter make up protons and neutrons.

What are quarks?


300

This is the force that controls radioactivity.

What is the weak force?
300
This is how elements in the periodic table are ordered.
What is by number of protons?
300
The definition of half life.

What is "The time it takes for half of the original sample of a radioactive isotope to decay"?

300

This is the state of a neutron when it is by itself.

What is unstable? 
300
This scientist developed a model of the atom in 1913.

Who is Niels Bohr?


400

If the electron’s negative charge were even one billionth of one percent different from the proton’s positive charge, THIS would happen.

What is an explosion of the atom?


400
This is the number that appears underneath the chemical symbol of the element on the periodic table.
What is the atomic mass of the element? 
400

In this type of radioactive decay, the nucleus of an atom releases a gamma ray.

What is gamma decay? 
400

These particles are 1/2000th the size of a proton.

What are electrons? 
400
T/F: The electron shells of atoms fill up from the outside in.

What is false?


500
The strong force holds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus through the exchange of these tiny particle.

What are pions?

500
The definition of isotope.

What is two or more atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons?

500
In this type of decay neutron splits into a proton and an electron.
What is beta decay?
500
In this type of radioactive decay, the nucleus spits out a helium atom.
What alpha decay.
500

This is the more accurate, but more complicated model of the atom than the Bohr Model.

What is the Quantum-Mechanical model?