Name _____________________________
Go to the website: http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/index.html
Click on Start Here and answer the following questions.
What is fundamental?
1. Define fundamental. ____________________________________________________________
2. How was the atom viewed around 1900? ___________________________________________
3. Explain why an atom is NOT fundamental. __________________________________________
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4. Give 2 examples of fundamentals in the atom. ________________________________________
5. Bonus Question: Enrico Fermi was quoted in this section. Why is he referred to as the great Enrico Fermi?
6. The best known lepton is an __________________________.
What is the World Made
of?
7. What is an antiparticle? _________________________________________________________
8. What happens when a particle and its antiparticle meet up? _____________________________
9. Explain how scientists know there is antimatter. ______________________________________
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10. An antielectron is called an _____________________________________________________.
11. How are antiparticles designated? ________________________________________________
12. List the three pairs of quarks. ____________________________________________________
13. What are hadrons? ____________________________________________________________
14. What are baryons? ____________________________________________________________
15. What are mesons? _____________________________________________________________
16. Protons and baryons are classified as ______________________________________________.
17. What are neutrinos? ___________________________________________________________
18. Give an example of a lepton decay that is possible. ___________________________________
19. What can pass right through the earth without interacting with a single atom? ______________
20. Protons are make of ____________________________________________________________
21. Members of the English nobility are made of: _______________________________________
22. The most fundamental particles are ________________________________________________
When you have completed this assignment,
turn it in for 4 bonus points.
