The kind of foil that Rutherford used in his experiment.
What is gold?
100
The first element on the periodic table.
What is hydrogen?
100
A model in which the electrons of an atom are pictured as grouped in concentric, spherical shells around the nucleus.
What is the shell model of the atom?
100
The symbol for hydrogen.
What is H?
200
A positively charged particle that is one of two kinds of particles found in the nucleus of atom.
What is a proton?
200
The kind of particles Rutherford shot at the foil in his experiment.
What are alpha particles?
200
The element that is able to bond with other elements the best.
What is oxygen?
200
The number of electrons an atom would like to have in it's outermost shell.
What is eight?
200
The most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
300
The smallest particle of an element that can be identified with that element.
What is an atom?
300
The name of the atomic model adopted before Rutherford's experiment.
What is the plum pudding model?
300
Elements in the same column of the periodic table.
What is a group?
300
An atom (or group of atoms bound together) with a net electrical charge, which is due to the loss or gain of electrons.
What is an ion?
300
The place where almost all elements are created.
What is the inside of stars?
400
Two or more atoms of the same or different elements joined to form a larger particle.
What is a molecule?
400
The name of the model adopted after Rutherford's experiment.
What is the nuclear model?
400
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is an atomic number?
400
Since oxygen has six electrons in its outermost shell, it is looking for this.
What are two extra electrons?
400
The element that David from the Nova video was trying to extract from his urine.
What is phosphorus?
500
A chemical substance made of atoms of two or more different atoms combined in a fixed proportion.
What is a compound?
500
The two things that Rutherford discovered with his experiment.
What are...the nucleus is very small and in the middle of the atom and the rest of the atom is mostly empty space?
500
A form of an element having a particular number of neutrons in the nuclei of its atoms.
What is an isotope?
500
The reason that sodium and chlorine combine to make table salt.
What is "sodium has an extra electron and chlorine is looking for one"?
500
The famous astrophysicist who spoke the quote, "I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, 'have you HEARD THIS?'"