Lake View Adventist Academy

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Science 8 – Year end exam
Name: _________________________________________ Score: ______________________
Section: ________________________________________ Date: _______________________

Test 1. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter that correspond the answer. No erasure please.

1. Refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and early philosophical and spiritual
disciplines.
a. Alchemy b. chemical symbols c. chemists
2. French physicist- chemist, publish a book that contained the classification of elements base on their
similar properties.
a. Antoine Lavoisier b. Johannes Wolfgang Dobereiner c. John Newlands
3. Who invented the chemical symbols?
a. Jons Jacob Berzelius b. John Dalton c. John Newland
4. A German chemist studied three elements and noticed similarities among properties of metal.
a. Johannes Wolfgang Dobereiner b. Dmitri Mendeleev c. Julius lothar Meyer
5. An English chemist presented another way of classifying elements. He compared their relationship to
the octaves of musical notes.
a. John Newland b. Mendeleev c. Meyer
6. He was the one who discovered the element eka-silicon and named it germanium.
a. Clemens Winkler b. Julius Lothar meyer c. Mendeleev
7. He built his table with elements arranged in horizontal rows, from left to right in the order of increasing
masses.
a. Mendeleev b. Meyer c. Dobereiner
8. Mendeleev added a new group to his table, the table O or group VIII for group of unreactive gases now
called ________?
a. Noble Gases b. Trouble Gases c. Mass Gases
9. Argon the first noble gas, came from the Greek word “argos” meaning ______
a. The lazy one b. hidden c. stranger
10. He suggested that atomic mass is not the property that governs periodicity.
a. Henry Moseley b. William Ramsay c. Rutherford

Test II. Enumeration: Enumerate 3 elements in every group/family.

1. Alkali Metals
a.
b.
c.

2. Alkaline Earth Metals

a.
b.
c.

3. Aluminum Earth Metals

a.
b.
c.

4. Carbon Family
 a.
b.
c.

5. Nitrogen Family
a.
b.

Test II. Solving.

Solve the following electronic configurations.

1. Mercury

2. Thorium

3. Copernicium

4. Francium

5. Helium

6. Xenon

7. Vanadium