INSIDE THE ATOM

Student Workbook

Models of the Atom Timeline

Name:

Read page 87-88 / Watch Weebly Videos

Complete the labels and write at least 2 facts about each model.

Basic Atomic Structure (8 mins)

Read page 87-88 / Watch Weebly Videos
Complete the labels and write at least 2 facts about each subatomic particles in the
table.

PROTON

NEUTRON

ELECTRON

Atomic number, Mass Number and Ions :: (Up to 3:15

mins)
Read page 89 / Watch Weebly videos and write definitions for the following:
Atomic Number

Mass Number

Net charge

Ions

Periodic Table
1. How many protons do each of the following have:
a. Chlorine
b. Sodium
c. Gold
2. Which elements have these Atomic Numbers?
a. 82
b. 36
c. 20
3. Name the two liquid elements.
a.
b.
4. Name three elements that were named after countries or places.
a.
b.
c.
5. Name three elements that were names after famous scientists.
a.
b.
c.
6. Name three elements that were named after planets or mythical gods.
a.
b.
c.
7. Name three elements that do not match their symbols because their symbols
come from Greek or Latin words.
a.
b.
8. How many neutrons do each of the following have (Mass number Atomic
Number):
a. Oxygen
b. Titanium
c. Phosphorus

What are Isotopes? (8 mins)

Read page 89 / Watch Weebly videos
Isotopes

ISOTOPE NOTATION

massnumber
atomic number

Element

Isotope Notation (8 mins)

eg.

can you write the answers before he does?

GCSE BBC Science Bitesize - Atomic Structure (up to

4:32)
Fill in as many answers as possible.
Dont worry if you miss any as we go through the answers at the end.
1.
2.
3.
4.

All matter is made up of _______________

_______________ are the simplest particles in an element.
Each element is made up of only _____ type of atom.
Atoms cannot be _______________ without changing the _______________ nature of

the substance.
5. The _______________ change on the protons equals the _______________ charge on
the electrons.
6. Overall the atom is _______________.
7. There is a force of _______________ between the positive _______________ and the
negative _______________.
8. This _______________ the electrons in place in the atom as they _______________
around the _______________.
9. Protons and neutrons have _______________.
10. They each have an _______________ mass of 1.
11. The mass of electrons is so _______________ it can be ignored.
12. All the atoms of the one element have the _______________ number of protons.
13. Atoms of different elements have _______________ numbers of protons.
14. The number of protons in an element is called the _______________ number.
15. The number of electrons in an atom is the same as the number of
_______________
16. The proton number is also called the _______________ number
17. The MASS number is the number of protons and _______________.
18. Isotopes have the same number of protons and therefore the same ___________
number.
19. Isotopes have a different number of neutrons and therefore a different ________
number.

Read

Quarks p.92 / Watch Weebly video on Quarks and the Large Hadron

Collider.
What is a Quark?

Name these Quarks!

Read A

Chemical Reaction p92

Use the diagram

1. Number of
2. Number of
3. Number of
4. Number of

to complete the following sentences:

Hydrogen atoms before =
___
Hydrogen atoms after =
___
Oxygen atoms before = ___
Oxygen atoms after = ___

What do you notice?

Watch Weebly Video Law of Conservation of

Write a definition for the Law of Conservation of Mass

Mass

Read A Nuclear Reaction p92

Write the isotope equation in the yellow box

Answer the following questions using what you know about isotope notation:
1. What do you notice about the top numbers?
_____________________________________
2. What do you notice about the bottom numbers?
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

__________________________________
What is mysteriously lost? ____________________________________________________
What is it converted into? ____________________________________________________
What is Alberts famous equation? _____________________________________________
What do each of the letters mean? _____________________________________________
How much energy does one gram of lost mass equal?
____________________________

Read Nuclear Fission page 93

Answer the following questions.
1. What is a nuclear reaction? ___________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
2. What is nuclear fission? ______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
3. What is a chain reaction? _____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
4. What is a nuclear explosion? __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Watch Weebly videos Nuclear Fission, Domino Day, Mousetrap Fission
Answer the following questions
1. Of the two types of videos, dominoes and mouse traps, which one is a controlled
chain reaction?
__________________________________________________________________
2. Which is an uncontrolled chain reaction?
_________________________________________
Label the following diagram using diagrams on p93

Read Nuclear Power Stations page 94

Label the parts of a nuclear power station

Functions of a Nuclear Power Station

PART
FUNCTION
Fuel Rods
Control Rods
Concrete
Containment
Building
Steam turbine
Electric Generator
Condensor

Watch Weebly videos

1. How a Nuclear Reactor Works
2. Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Problem Explained

3. How a nuclear reactor works

List the 3 reasons for the Fukushimas nuclear reactors problem.
1. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Read Nuclear Fusion Page 94
Answer the following questions
1. Where does nuclear fusion occur naturally?
______________________________________
2. How does it occur? __________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Watch Weebly video - Nuclear Fusion video from National Geographic
1. Why is nuclear fusion better than nuclear fission?
_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
2. How come we dont have fusion reactors?
_______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Lise Meitner and Nuclear Fission
Read page 95 / Watch Weebly videos
1. Why did Lise Meitner have to flee from Germany in 1938?

2. Why do you think Meitner wasnt awarded the Nobel Prize with Otto Hahn?

3. Do you think Meitner was treated fairly? Explain.

Read Radioactivity page 97

Copy and label the diagram at the bottom of the first column

Answer the following questions

1. What were the three radioactive elements found?
_________________________________
2. What was inferred about the two bent beams?
____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
3. What was inferred about the negative beam?
_____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
4. What was inferred about the gamma rays?
_______________________________________
Read Types of Radiation page 97
Watch Weebly videos
1. Types of Radiation
2. Radioactive Isotopes
3. Explaining radioactivity animation
Complete the following table.
Type of
What is it?
Radiation

Distance
travelled in air

alpha
beta
gamma

Read Detecting

Radiation page 97

Can be stopped
By . . .

Watch Weebly video REAL TALK: Geiger Counter - Hidden Genius

Write a summary of how a Geiger counter works.

Read Radioactive decay page 98

Watch the Weebly video What does the term half-life mean? And Bill Nye Explains Half
Life
Answer the following questions
1. What causes an isotope to decay? ______________________________________________
2. What does half-life mean?_____________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Read Is Radiation Harmfulpage 99
Answer the following questions
1. What types of high energy radiation waves cause cancer?
___________________________
2. Where does the natural background radiation come from?
__________________________
3. What unit is radiation measured in?
_____________________________________________
4. How many X-rays could you have a year before going over the 2 millisieverts
maximum? __
Read The Story of the Atomic
videos
1. The Story of the Atomic Bomb
2. Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb

Bomb

page 107 / Watch these weebly

Read Using radioisotopes page 99-102

Watch Weebly videos
1. discuss the uses of radioisotopes,
2. uses of radio isotopes
Complete Radioactive Isotopes Scaffold for three uses of Radioisotopes. P99-101
Type

Nuclear
Medicine

Name of
Radioisotop
e

Atomic
Notatio
n

Type of
Radiatio
n
emitted

Description of Use