Section 30.3
The Building Blocks of Matter
Practice Test
1.
What does an antineutrino carry?
a.
charge and energy
b.
momentum and energy
c.
sound and momentum
d.
mass and charge
Hint
2.
Why are neutrons unable to be put through a particle accelerator?
a.
They are too heavy.
b.
They have no charge.
c.
They are too small.
d.
They cannot move fast.
Hint
3.
All elementary particles can be classified into which three categories?
a.
quarks, leptons, and gluons
b.
force carriers, gluons, and quarks
c.
leptons, bosons, and electrons
d.
quarks, leptons, and force carriers
Hint
4.
What causes a pulse of current to travel from a Geiger-Mueller tube?
a.
a charged particle or a gamma ray ionizing gas
b.
neutrons ionizing gas
c.
X rays
d.
atoms ionizing gas
Hint
5.
What happens when a proton and an antiproton collide?
a.
production
b.
annihilation
c.
shattering of the particles into more particles
d.
more protons
Hint
6.
Which particle is a lepton?
a.
a neutron
b.
an electron
c.
a meson
d.
a proton
Hint
7.
What powers particles through a linear accelerator?
a.
wind
b.
fire
c.
electric fields
d.
gasoline
Hint
8.
What is a meson?
a.
the largest elementary particle
b.
a boson
c.
a particle made of a quark and an antiquark
d.
a lepton
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