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The periodic table quiz

Answer all the multiple choice questions below to test your knowledge of the early periodic table and the scientsist who helped develop it. Hit the check answer button to get your score when you have completed the quiz.

Mendeleev working on his periodic table of elements. Mendeleev predicted the properties of many undiscovered elements which later proved to be correct.

1. Who was the first scientist to propose that atoms of different elements have different masses?




2. What was Döbereiner's main contribution to the development of a periodic table?




3. What was the main idea behind John Newland's Law of Octaves?




4. Newlands and Mendeleev arranged the elements in their periodic table according to their atomic ; however in the modern periodc table the elements are arranged according to their number.

5. What was Mendeleev's key improvement to the development of a periodic table?




Image explains that the elements in the periodic table are arranged in rows and groups.

6. What was the main issue with arranging elements strictly by atomic mass?


when arranged by their atomic mass

7. What key discovery resolved Mendeleev's tellurium-iodine issue?




8. Why was Mendeleev's periodic table widely accepted?




9. What was main mistake Newland's make in constructing his periodic table?




10. Why did Mendeleev leave gaps in his periodic table?




11. What allowed scientists to finally arrange the elements correctly in the periodic table?