Name:______Class:______Date:______
Bill Nye: Atoms video
1. There are billions of things in our world. We call all of this stuff ______.
2. If you tried to cut something in half in half over and over, eventually you’d end up with a piece ______.
3. The word atom comes from a ______word that means ______.
4. In the middle of an atom are very ______particles. Buzzing around the middle of the atom are very ______particles.
5. The middle of an atom is called the ______. It is where the protons and neutrons are.
6. The protons have a ______electrical charge. The neutrons have ______charge. They’re ______. They just hang out in the nucleus.
7. Buzzing around the nucleus are very small particles called ______. (They have a negative charge).
8. If the buzzing ball in Bill’s model was really the nucleus of an atom, the electrons would be ______meters away.
9. Everything that’s made of atoms, everything you can touch and feel, is mostly ______.
10. Even though electrons are really far apart, they ______each other so strongly and are whipping around the nuclei of atoms so ______that they make the atoms act like a ______.
11. Atoms are so small you could put ______on the head of a pin.
12. Atoms are the basic ______of all matter. Atoms are like the ______in the alphabet of the universe.
13. (Pay attention and think for this one—it isn’t exactly how it’s said!) When you combine letters, you get words. When you combine atoms, you get ______(which are like words in our universal alphabet).
14. When you pass electricity through water, you get two ______. Doing this experiment shows that water is made of two parts ______and one part ______.
15. The thing that makes one atom different from another is the number of ______in the nucleus.
16. The main difference between aluminum and copper is the number of ______in the nucleus.
17. Elements are put into groups called periods that are arranged in the ______.
18. Scientists have given each element a one or two letter ______.
19. The atomic number shows the number of ______in the nucleus.
20. There are ______elements that occur naturally and using these elements we can make all kinds of interesting ______.
21. H2O is ______. NaCl is ______. C3H5N3O9 is ______.
22. Warren Buck is a nuclear physicist. He studies ______inside that mound.
23. Everything in the universe is either ______or ______.
24. Heat, light and sound are examples of ______. The torch is an example of ______.
25. Atoms are the smallest pieces of stuff that’s ______.
26. Carbon is in every living thing. It’s in ______and ______(give two examples).
27. (Song): Atoms all combine. They make up ______.