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