Modern Atomic Theory

The following is a listing of test questions used in the past for the alchemy and atomic theory testing. Below is also given a sample of the terms that will be used on the word-bank matching portion of the test. Other topics may be used on the test as well. This list is not the complete review that will be given in different classes.

1. Define alchemy
2. List types of alchemist
3. Give formulas and names of 3 mineral acids
4. Give 3 reasons why minerals acids are superior to organic acids
5. List major accomplishments of Lavoisier
6. List 3 goals and 3 accomplishments of alchemist
7. Give reasons why Aristotle's ideas lasted for 2000 years
8. Explain phlogiston theory and how it afffected Priestley's work
9. Explain the 3 major experiments performed by Lavoisier
10. Explain the use of the Philosopher's Stone
11. Know important aspects of Aristotle, Democritus, Geber, and Paracelsus
12. Know importance of 4 Primal Elements of Greeks
13. Explain science behind Cavendish hydrogen jet experiment
14. Know key facts about protons, neutrons, electrons, ions, isotopes
15. Know mass number, atomic number, and atomic mass
16. Know mixture versus compound chart
17. Know List of compounds
18. Know types of mixtures and mixture separation techniques
19. Know conservation of mass and energy
20. Know binding energy/mass defect
21. Know quarks, leptons, hadrons
22. Know solubility (big topic)
23. know moles
24. know sand/salt lab, chromatography lab, colloid lab
25. know vocabulary homework information
26. know chromatography lab
27. know 4 forces in nature
28. Elprobe information
29. Vocabulary homelab information

terms that might show up on test: adhesion, coagulation, cohesion, crystallization, diffusion, distillation, ductility, elasticity, extraction, filtration, malleability, osmosis, phlogistion, reflux, surface tension, tensile strength, viscosity, volatile, colloid, non-newtonian and newtonian fluids, shear forces, catalyst, mass number, isotopes, atomic number, atomic mass, ions, chromatography, entropy, filtrate, potential energy, kinetic energy, alloy, amalgam, solution, aqueous, tincture, solute, solvent, emulsion, immiscible, molecules

The test will include 40 - 60 matching questions (depending on the class) and 5 to 10 discussion questions. Students may use one sheet of notebook paper, handwritten, with any notes on it they choose. These notes may not be shared.

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