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The statement "If I add cold milk to hot coffee the temperature will decrease," is a? - correct
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answer✔✔Claim, always include an explanation and reasoning to the claim. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Scientific Model - correct answer✔✔Models are used to make testable predictions ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




How much is a picometer? - correct answer✔✔0.1 x 10^-12 meters
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Atomic Force Microscopy/ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy - correct ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




answer✔✔Microscopes that now allows us to view atoms. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Leaves are green in the summer because? - correct answer✔✔A plant's leaves are green in
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the summer because they contain chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a natural pigment that
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absorbs all wavelengths in the visible spectrum except green. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




How many naturally occurring elements exist? - correct answer✔✔91
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What was Dalton's Atomic theory? (1808) - correct answer✔✔- Elements are composed of
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small particles called Atoms. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




- Atoms of a given element are different from atoms of other elements.
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-Chemical reactions happen when atoms are rearranged. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




- Compounds contain 2 or more elements.
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What was J.J. Thomson's experiment, and what did he discover? - correct answer✔✔Using
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a Cathode Ray Tube, he noticed that particles emerged to the cathode disk, and moved to
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,another, the anode. These particles could be deflected by electrical fields that would ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




indicate that they would be negatively charged. They were also deflected by magnetic fields,
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which showed the particles carried the charge as the ray was bent. The most important
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observation was that the type of cathode used did not matter, as these particles were still ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




emitted. Therefore, Thomson deduced that the particles were universal and were in fact ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




negatively charged components of the atom. (The Electron) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




What was Ernest Rutherford's experiment, what did he discover? - correct answer✔✔Ernest
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Rutherford fired Alpha particles (Hydrogen atoms) at a thin sheet of gold foil. Had
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Thomson's theory been right about the plum pudding model, then the atoms should have ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




all passed right through the sheet with no exceptions. However, a small ratio of these
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particles were deflected. With this information, Rutherford figured there was a small dense ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




nucleus in the atom and that most of the atom was empty space. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




What is the difference between Law and Theory? - correct answer✔✔A law describes - tells
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you what happens ||\\//|| ||\\//||




A theory explains - tells you why it happens
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How big is an atom (H)? - correct answer✔✔About 0.1 nanometer (0.1 x 10-9m)
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Which is biggest? Atom, Molecule, Cell, or it depends? - correct answer✔✔
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Where did the idea of atoms come from? - correct answer✔✔The Greeks||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Atoms - correct answer✔✔The smallest unit of an element ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




What is the evidence from Thomson's experiment that all atoms contain electrons? - correct
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answer✔✔The particles are identical regardless of the identity of the cathode(where they ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




were emitted from). ||\\//|| ||\\//||

, What is an alpha particle? - correct answer✔✔Has 2 protons and 2 neutrons. It is the
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nucleus of a Helium atom. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Coulomb's Law - correct answer✔✔Negative and positive charges attract and like charges ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




repel.



4 Types of Forces - correct answer✔✔Gravitational, Electromagnetic, Strong Nuclear, Weak
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Nuclear



Gravitational Force - correct answer✔✔Responsible for attraction between objects that have ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




mass.
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Electromagnetic Force - correct answer✔✔Responsible for attraction/repulsion for objects ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




that have an electric charge. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Kinetic Energy - correct answer✔✔The energy associated with motion. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




Potential Energy - correct answer✔✔The energy associated with the position of a system of ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




objects in a field. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




London Dispersion Forces - correct answer✔✔ ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||




How many molecules must be present for LDF's to exist? - correct answer✔✔Two or more
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As the helium atoms approach what happens to the total energy? - correct answer✔✔Stays
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the same ||\\//||

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