AS 11.2 Fundamental Particles

Question 1 What is a particle that is not made of any smaller particles?

• A elementary particle
• B minimum particle
• C original particle
• D atomic particle

Question 2 Light is made up of which type of elementary particle?

• A qurarks
• B leptons
• C photons
• D bosons

Question 3 What type of elementary particles are electrons ?

• A quarks
• B leptons
• C photons
• D bosons

Question 4 What elementary particles are the building blocks for protons and neutrons ?

• A quarks
• B leptons
• C photons
• D bosons

Question 5 How many quarks make up a proton ?

• A 0
• B 1
• C 2
• D 3

Question 6 Which particle is made up of two 'down' quarks and one 'up' quark?

• A atom
• B electron
• C neutron
• D proton

Question 7 How many types of quark are there ?

• A 2
• B 4
• C 6
• D 8

Question 8 Which elementary particle is a lepton ?

• A neutron
• B electron
• C quark
• D proton

Question 9 What are the fundamental particles of an atom ?

• A quarks, gluons and electrons
• B protons, neutrons and electrons
• C quarks, photons and electrons
• D quarks, gluons and neutrino

Question 10 What are mesons ?

• A a type of composite particle produced by high energy
• B a type of gluon
• C an antimatter version of the electron
• D a type of neutrino