This document contains a basic chemistry quiz with 19 multiple choice or short answer questions covering topics like the definitions of matter, elements, atoms, isotopes, ions, and different types of chemical bonds. Specifically, it asks about the makeup of atoms including protons, neutrons, electrons and their charges. It also asks students to identify common elements in living organisms, draw the atom of nitrogen, and define terms like molecules, compounds, cations, anions, and bonding types including ionic, covalent and metallic.

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Basic Chemistry Quiz
1. What is matter?
2. What are elements?
3. Name 4 commonelementswe see inall livingorganisms
4. What is an Atom?
5. What are atoms made up of?

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6. What is the charge of a proton?Neutron?Electron?
7. Lookingat the atomicsymbol of Carbonabove,whatisthe atomicmass?What is the atomicnumber?
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8. What is an Isotope?
9. If the atomicnumberis5 how manyelectronsdoesthatatomissaid to be neutral?
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10. How manyelectronscanbe in the firstshell of anatom?
11. How manyelectronscanbe in the secondshell of anatom?
12. Nitrogenhas7 protons,7 neutronsand7 electrons.Draw the atom of nitrogen.
13. What isa Molecule?

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14. What isa chemical compound?
15. What isan ion?
16. What are cations?What are anions?
17. What is an ionicbond?

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18. What isa covalentbond(covalentbonding)?
19. What ismetallicbonding?