Atoms and Elements - Cloze Test Worksheet - Quickworksheets - Free Printable

It looks like you've uploaded a worksheet titled "Atoms and Elements" that contains a fill-in-the-blank passage about basic chemistry concepts. The goal is to use the provided word bank to complete the blanks correctly.

Let's go through the passage step by step and fill in the blanks using logical reasoning and scientific knowledge, based on the word bank:

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Word Bank (from the image):

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chemical midline two-letter bromine bonds
chemical cannot gold nitrogen mercury
Mg cannot sulfur different compound
element fluorine hydrogen impure different
name metals disilling carbon Compounds
nitrogen bonded hydrogen elements molecules
bonded atom one solids atoms
different chemical helium physical simple-letter
chemical atom filtering oxygen element
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Note: Some words are repeated; we’ll use them appropriately.

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Now let’s solve the passage:

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There is a huge number of ________ chemicals in our world.

✔ Answer: *different*
→ "There are a huge number of different chemicals..." makes sense.

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Some of these chemicals that will be familiar to you are glass, wood, water, salt, sugar, petrol and plastic. These chemicals are all made out of extremely small particles called ________, which are joined together in ________ (groups of atoms) or ________ (networks).

- First blank: atoms
→ All matter is made of atoms.
- Second blank: molecules
→ Groups of atoms bonded together form molecules.
- Third blank: lattices
→ In solids like salts, atoms form networks called lattices.

✔ So: atoms, molecules, lattices

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All of the thousands of different chemicals that exist are made up from a limited number of different kinds of atoms.

This sentence is complete as-is.

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An ________ is a simple chemical made up of only ________ type of atom. Pure gold is an element because it contains ________ atoms only.

- First blank: element
→ Definition of an element.
- Second blank: one
→ An element is made of only one type of atom.
- Third blank: gold
→ Pure gold contains only gold atoms.

✔ So: element, one, gold

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An element ________ be broken down into simpler substances. Water can be broken down into ________ and ________ gases, so it is not an ________. Liquid mercury ________ be broken down into simpler substances, so it is an ________.

- First blank: cannot
→ Elements cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means.
- Second and third blanks: hydrogen and oxygen
→ Water breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen gas.
- Fourth blank: element
→ Since water breaks down, it's not an element.
- Fifth blank: cannot
→ Mercury cannot be broken down.
- Sixth blank: element
→ Therefore, mercury is an element.

✔ So: cannot, hydrogen, oxygen, element, cannot, element

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Most of the elements are ________. Eleven are gases (________, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, chlorine, etc.) and just two are liquids (________ and ________).

- First blank: solids
→ Most elements are solid at room temperature.
- Second blank: hydrogen
→ Hydrogen is one of the gaseous elements (along with nitrogen, oxygen, etc.)
- Third and fourth blanks: bromine and mercury
→ Bromine is a liquid non-metal; mercury is a liquid metal.

✔ So: solids, hydrogen, bromine, mercury

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Most of the elements are ________. Only 20 or so are non-metals (carbon, ________, ________, neon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, iodine, etc.)

- First blank: metals
→ Most elements are metals.
- Second and third blanks: nitrogen, oxygen
→ These are common non-metals listed in the word bank.

✔ So: metals, nitrogen, oxygen

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Each element has been given a distinct ________. Often the name was given to the element by the scientist who discovered it.

- Blank: name
→ Each element has a distinct name.

✔ So: name

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Final Answer Key (filled-in passage):

> There is a huge number of different chemicals in our world. Some of these chemicals that will be familiar to you are glass, wood, water, salt, sugar, petrol and plastic. These chemicals are all made out of extremely small particles called atoms, which are joined together in molecules (groups of atoms) or lattices (networks).
> All of the thousands of different chemicals that exist are made up from a limited number of different kinds of atoms.
> An element is a simple chemical made up of only one type of atom. Pure gold is an element because it contains gold atoms only.
> An element cannot be broken down into simpler substances. Water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen gases, so it is not an element. Liquid mercury cannot be broken down into simpler substances, so it is an element.
> Most of the elements are solids. Eleven are gases (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, chlorine, etc.) and just two are liquids (bromine and mercury).
> Most of the elements are metals. Only 20 or so are non-metals (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, iodine, etc.)
> Each element has been given a distinct name. Often the name was given to the element by the scientist who discovered it.

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Summary of Words Used:

From the word bank, the correct answers used are:
- different
- atoms
- molecules
- lattices
- element
- one
- gold
- cannot
- hydrogen
- oxygen
- element
- solids
- hydrogen
- bromine
- mercury
- metals
- nitrogen
- oxygen
- name

✔ All blanks filled logically and scientifically.

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