1ST Physci Long Quiz
1ST Physci Long Quiz
1ST Physci Long Quiz
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
10/17/2022
PREPARE ½ LENGHTWISE.
WRITE YOUR COMPLETE NAME, SECTION
AND THE DATE TODAY.
1. It explains the concept of creatio ex nihilo
or God creating the universe as written in
the book of Genesis.
a. Big Bang Theory
b. cosmology
c. Physical Cosmology
d. religious/mythological cosmology
2. According to the Big Bang, the universe
began as a _____________ or a point containing
all space, time, matter and energy.
a. Nebula
b. Protostar
c. singularity
d. Stellar Nurseries
3. These are low, steady humming noise
believed to be energy remains of the Big
Bang.
a. Chondrites
b. cosmic microwave background radiation
(CMBR)
c. Nuclear fusion
d. Redshift
4. During the Big Bang, the universe
expanded rapidly in nothingness through a
rapid yet peaceful process called ________.
a. Expansion
b. inflation
c. nucleosynthesis
d. recombination
5. How would you describe the temperature
of the universe as expansion continues?
a. The universe cooled down as it expanded
b. The universe heats up as it expanded
c. The temperature increases because of
nuclear reactions
d. The temperature decreases in the absence of
solar radiation
6. It is the process of producing light
elements during the big bang expansion.
a. Stellar Nucleosynthesis
b. Big Bang theory
c. Stellar Evolution
d. Big Bang nucleosynthesis
7. What theory states that stars formed
when gravity acted on the particles
expanding with the universe.
a. star formation theory
b. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis theory
c. Stellar Evolution Theory
d. big Bang Theory
8. The following elements were formed
during the BBN except ________.
a. Helium
b. Iron
c. Lithium
d. Hydrogen
9. What refers to the process in which a star
changes through its lifetime?
a. Stellar evolution
b. Stellar Nucleosynthesis
c. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
d. Heliocentric Universe Theory
10. How do protostar evolve into a main
sequence star?
a. When the majority of helium in their cores are
consumed
b. When hydrogen atoms in their cores get depleted
c. When a protostar has reach gravitational
equilibrium
d. When pressure and temperature levels become
favorable for carbon fusion
11. A proton (p) and a neutron (n) may fuse
together to yield a high-energy photon (γ)
and an isotope of hydrogen (H) called
____________.
a. deuterium
b. tritium
c. Helium-4
d. Lithium-7
12. When helium is used up in low-mass
stars, the outer material of the star is blown
off into the space. The only thing that
remains is the hot and inert carbon core. A
star has become a _______________.
a. red giant
b. multiple-shell red-giant
c. white dwarf
d. main-sequence star
13. The following elements were formed
during stellar nucleosynthesis, except
______________?
a. Carbon
b. Oxygen
c. Nitrogen
d. Beryllium
14. The formation of a star starts with the
dense regions of molecular clouds. What
force pulls matter together to form these
regions?
a. electromagnetic force
b. nuclear force
c. gravitational force
d. frictional force
15. Multiple elements formed from a series
of reactions inside a multiple-shell red giant,
in what correct order?
a. carbon → oxygen → neon → silicon → iron
b. oxygen → carbon → neon → silicon → iron
c. carbon → oxygen → silicon → neon → iron
d. carbon → neon → silicon → iron → oxygen
16. Which is not true about a supernova?
a. Supernova is also known as a death of a star
b. It is an exploding multiple-shell red giant
c. Elements heavier than iron are formed after a
supernova
d. Elements like nitrogen, silicon and Iron are
formed after a supernova
17. Which of the following refers to the chain
reaction by which a star transforms
hydrogen into helium?
a. proton-proton chain reaction
b. proton-neutron chain reaction
c. proton-electron chain reaction
d. alpha fusion reaction
18. Which of the following is equal to the
atomic number of an element?
a. sum of protons and neutrons
b. number of neutrons
c. sum of electrons and protons
d. number of protons
19. Which of the following scientists was the
first to successfully carry out a nuclear
transmutation reaction?
a. Joseph John Thomson
b. Ernest Rutherford
c. Henry Moseley
d. Niels Bohr
20. Which of the following elements was
the necessary starting material in the first
synthesis of promethium?
a. uranium
b. oxygen
c. mercury
d. platinum
21. The atomic mass and density of the
middle element is the approximate average
of the atomic mass and density of the first
and third element.
a. Johann Dobereiner
b. John Newlands
c. Dmitri Mendeleev
d. Henry Moseley
22. Who is considered Father of Periodic
Table?
a. Johann Dobereiner
b. John Newlands
c. Dmitri Mendeleev
d. Henry Moseley
23. Arranged the elements in increasing
atomic number and concluded that the
atomic number is equal to the number of
protons.
a. Johann Dobereiner
b. John Newlands
c. Dmitri Mendeleev
d. Henry Moseley
24. All matter is composed of extremely
small, solid, indivisible, indestructible
particles called atom.
a. Rutherford’s Planetary Model
b. Thomson’s Plum Pudding Model
c. Dalton’s Billiard Ball Model/The Solid Sphere
Model
d. Schrodinger’s Electron Cloud Model
25. American physicist synthesized element
with atomic number 43 using a linear
particle accelerator.
a. Ernest Lawrence
b. Dale Corson
c. Kenneth Mackenzie
d. Emilio Segre
26-40 IDENTIFICATION
Identify what is being asked. Wrong
spelling is incorrect.
26. It is the measure of the ability of an atom
to attract bonding pairs of electrons.
27. He developed a numerical scale of
electronegativity of selected representative
elements in the periodic table.
28. The process of converting Helium atoms
into Carbon atoms.
29. An element that has similar number of
protons but different number of neutrons.
30. The most electronegative element.
31. The least electronegative element.
32. A very hot stellar core that continues to
gather gas and dust as it contracts and
increases in temperature
33. Stars that are only able to fuel deuterium
fusion reactions and often referred as failed
stars.
34. The formation of heavier elements.
35. It is the total of the number of protons and
number of neutrons in the nucleus.
36. How many elements are present in the
periodic table?
37. Elements having an atomic number of
greater than 92.
38. He published methods for classifying
elements similar to Mendeleev.
39. What is element number 43?
40. It gives the identity of an atom.
Calculate the electronegativity difference
for the following bonds.
Electronegativity