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101. What is the most abundant element in the atmosphere?
- A. Oxygen
- B. Nitrogen
- C. Helium
- D. Inert gases
102. What is the only gas in Group VIA in the periodic table?
- A. Argon
- B. Krypton
- C. Oxygen
- D. Helium
103. What is the second most abundant element in the atmosphere?
- A. Hydrogen
- B. Helium
- C. Oxygen
- D. Nitrogen
104. What element is used in advertising signs?
- A. Neon
- B. Helium
- C. Sodium
- D. Xenon
105. What principle states about the fundamental limitation that, for a particle as small as the electron, one cannot know exactly where it is and at the same time know its energy how it is moving?
- A. Autbau principle
- B. Uncertainty principle
- C. Pauli exclusion principle
- D. Kinetic molecular theory
106. Who discovered the uncertainty principle?
- A. Werner Karl Heisenberg principle?
- B. Louie de Broglie
- C. Albert Einstein
- D. John Newlands
107. What principle states that the electrons fill the orbitals, one at a time, starting with the lowest orbital then proceeding to the one with higher energy?
- A. Autbau principle
- B. Uncertainty principle
- C. Pauli exclusion principle
- D. Kinetic molecular theory
108. What principle states that no two electrons in the same atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers?
- A. Autbau principle
- B. Uncertainty principle
- C. Pauli exclusion principle
- D. Kinetic molecular theory
109. What describes how the electrons and distributed among the orbitals?
- A. Electronegativity of the element
- B. Electron configuration of an atom
- C. Energy state of the atom
- D. Pauli exclusion principle
110. The _______ of the atom describes the atom as having a nucleus at the center around which electrons move?
- A. spin number
- B. quantum mechanical model
- C. quantum number
- D. azimuthal number
111. What are the main energy levels where the valence electrons belong called?
- A. Valence shells
- B. Azimuthal shells
- C. Spin shells
- D. Quantum shells
112. The elements of groups IA, IIA, IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA and VIIIA are called main group elements or
- A. transition
- B. representatives
- C. inner transitions
- D. metals or nonmetals
113. For the representative elements, the number of valence electrons is the same as the _____.
- A. number of electrons
- B. number of neutrons
- C. the rightmost digit of the group number of the element
- D. number of electrons less the number of neutrons
114. For transition elements, the number of valence electron is the same as _______.
- A. the group number
- B. the rightmost digit of the group number of the element
- C. the number of electrons less the number of neutrons
- D. the number of electrons less the number of protons
115. The size of the atom is dependent on which of the following:
- A. the size of the nucleus
- B. the region of space occupied by its electrons
- C. the number of protons and neutrons
- D. all of the choices above
116. What happens to the atomic size of the elements in a group when you go from top to bottom of the group?
- A. It remains the same
- B. It increases
- C. It decreases
- D. It become zero
117. Who first predicted the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in 1924?
- A. Albert Einstein
- B. SatyendraNath Bose
- C. Carl Wieman
- D. WollgangKetterie
118. The ionization energy is _________ to the atomic size of atom.
- A. directly proportional
- B. inversely proportional
- C. equal to
- D. not related
119. What refers to the measure of the atom’s tendency to attract an additional electron?
- A. Period number
- B. Electron affinity
- C. Ionization energy
- D. Electronegativity
120. The process of gaining or losing an electron results to the formation of a charged atom or molecule called _______.
- A. ion
- B. cation
- C. anion
- D. crystal
121. Aside from liquid, gas and solid, there are two other states of matter.
- A. Plasma and Quark
- B. Quartz and Plasma
- C. Quartz and Quasar
- D. Plasma and Bose-Einstein condensate
122. Who first identified plasma in 1879?
- A. William Crookes
- B. Irving Langmuir
- C. Albert Einstein
- D. Eric Cornell
123. Who coined the term “plasma” in 1928?
- A. William Crookes
- B. Irving Langmuir
- C. Albert Einstein
- D. Eric Cornell
124. What is made of gas atoms that have been cooled to near absolute zero at which temperature the atoms slow down, combine and forms a single entity known called a superatom?
- A. Ionized gas
- B. Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
- C. Plasma
- D. Quark
125. The fifth state of matter, the BEC (Bose-Einstein condensate) was first created in what year?
- A. 1992
- B. 1993
- C. 1994
- D. 1995
126. What is a high-energy, electrically charged gas produced by heating the gas until the electrons in the outer orbitals of the atoms separate, leaving the atoms with a positive charge?
- A. Quartz
- B. Quark
- C. BEC
- D. Plasma
127. Water has bigger density when it is in what state?
- A. Liquid
- B. Gas
- C. Solid
- D. Vapor
128. What is the temperature of water in solid state at 1 atm?
- A. 40C
- B. 250C
- C. 00C
- D. 50C
129. The density of water is the largest at what temperature?
- A. 20C
- B. 10C
- C. 30C
- D. 40C
130. What element has a very high melting point and ideal for filaments of light bulbs?
- A. Barium
- B. Aluminum
- C. Tungsten
- D. Titanium
131. Metals can be drawn into wires. This illustrates what property of metals?
- A. Malleability
- B. Ductility
- C. Rigidity
- D. Plasticity
132. Steel is the widely used construction material because of its high tensile strength. It is a combination of what element?
- A. Iron and carbon
- B. Iron and aluminum
- C. Lead and carbon
- D. Lead and aluminum
133. What refers to the electrostatic attraction that holds together the oppositely charged ions, the cations and anions, in the solid compound?
- A. Electronic bond
- B. Metallic bond
- C. Covalent bond
- D. Ionic bond
134. What states that atoms tend to gain, lose or share electrons until they are surrounded by eight valence electrons?
- A. Figure of 8 rule
- B. Octet rule
- C. Ionic rule
- D. Lewis rule
135. What indicates the number of valence electrons to the atom represented by dots scattered on four sides of the atomic symbol?
- A. Electron dot structure
- B. Lewis structure
- C. Crystalline structure
- D. Electron dot structure or Lewis structure
136. What is formed by sharing of electrons between atom?
- A. Covalent bond
- B. Ionic bond
- C. Metallic bond
- D. Electronic band
137. What is the distance between the nuclei of two bonded atoms called?
- A. Bond length
- B. Molecular length
- C. Atomic distance
- D. Atomic radius
138. The overall shape of a molecule is described by which two properties?
- A. Bond distance and bond size
- B. Bond distance and bond angle
- C. Bond radius and bond angle
- D. Bond angle and bond size
139. What is an angle made by the lines joining the nuclei of the atoms in the molecule?
- A. Atomic angle
- B. Bond angle
- C. Molecular angle
- D. Ionic angle
140. “The best arrangement of a given number of shared and unshared electrons is the one that minimizes the repulsion among them”. This is known as ___________.
- A. valence bond theory
- B. electron group theory
- C. molecular polarity theory
- D. valence-shell electron-pair repulsion theory
141. “A covalent bond is formed by the overlap of atomic orbitals.” This statement is the basic idea of which theory?
- A. Valence bond theory
- B. Energy group theory
- C. Molecular polarity theory
- D. Valence-shell electron-pair repulsion (VSPER) theory
142. What refers to the ability of an atom in a molecule to attract shared electrons?
- A. Electronegativity
- B. Electron affinity
- C. Ionization energy
- D. Periodic number
143. What type of bond occurs when the difference in electronegativity is greater than or equal to 2?
- A. Ionic
- B. Nonpolar covalent
- C. Polar covalent
- D. Either nonpolar covalent or polar covalent
144. Nonpolar covalent bond occurs if the difference in electronegativity ranges from:
- A. 0.00 to 0.40
- B. 0.50 to 1.90
- C. 1.90 to 2.00
- D. 2.00 and up
145. When can we say that a molecule is polar?
- A. When the centers of positive and negative charge do not coincide
- B. When the centers of positive and negative charge coincide
- C. When there is no positive nor negative charge
- D. When there is only one charge, either negative or negative
146. What is the sum of the masses of the atoms in the molecule of the substance called?
- A. Atomic mass
- B. Molecular mass
- C. Formula mass
- D. Atomic weight
147. What refers to the number of atoms in exactly 12 grams of carbon-12?
- A. Avogadro’s number
- B. Mole
- C. Molar mass
- D. amu
148. Which one is the Avogado’s number?
- A. 6.20 x 10^23
- B. 6.62 x 10^23
- C. 6.32 x 10^23
- D. 6.22 x 10^23
149. What is defined as the amount of substance that contains 6.02 x 1023 particles of that substance?
- A. Mole
- B. Molar mass
- C. Atomic mass
- D. amu
150. What refers to the mass in grams of one mole of a substance?
- A. Molar mass
- B. Molecular mass
- C. Atomic mass
- D. Atomic weight
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