Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment

Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment

Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment

Assessment

Quiz

Science

8th Grade

Easy

NGSS
HS-PS1-8, MS-PS1-1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

Used 3+ times

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Discovered the proton using the gold foil experiment. He proposed a model of an atom that had a nucleus a positive charge surrounded by a large area of empty space where electrons orbited.

Dalton

Thomas

Rutherford

Bohr

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Has a positive and stays in the center of the atom.

Electron

Proton

Neutron

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What was the experiment that led to Rutherford's nuclear model of the atom?

Gold foil experiment

Oil drop experiment

Photoelectric effect

Compton scattering

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What type of particles did Rutherford use in his scattering experiment?

Alpha particles

Gamma particles

Beta particles

Neutrons

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What did Rutherford's nuclear model of atom propose in 1911?

The majority of the mass of an atom is concentrated in a small, positively charged nucleus at the center.

Atoms are made up of small, indivisible particles called protons and electrons.

Electrons orbit the nucleus in a fixed path.

Atoms are mostly empty space.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What do you call the yellow part in this image?

Spherical Cloud of Positive Charge

Spiral Cloud Of Positive Change

Spherical Cloud of Negative Charge

Spherical cloud of Electrons

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In Rutherford atomic model the alpha particles were stroked on

Aluminium

Gold

Silver

Titanium

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