Atoms Answers

Which statement best explains why the overall charge on an atom is zero?

What do an electron and a neutron have in common?

What is the mass of a neutron?

How does an atom change if all of its electrons are removed?

Roberto creates an animation titled “Flying through an Atom.” The animation makes it seem as if the viewer passes all the way through an atom, starting from one side, then through the atom’s center, and then leaving through the other side.What is the best description of the order of events in the animation?

2 red and 2 blue overlapping balls in the center are surrounded by a green, fuzzy, circular cloud with a white line running through it. 2 green balls sit on the white line, and a line leading a bracket around the balls is labeled A. A line leading to a bracket overlapping the white line is labeled B.

Which part of an atom is mostly empty space?

At the center, 6 unmarked red balls are interspersed with 4 blue balls marked with plus signs. A green cloud with 2 concentric white lines surrounds the center, with 2 small green balls marked with minus signs on the inner white line and 2 small green balls marked with minus signs on the outer white line.

Students are completing a table about a particular subatomic particle that helps make up an atom. The students have filled in one cell of the table so far.Based on the information shown, which statement about the subatomic particle must be correct?

Which statement describes an atomic nucleus?