Class 11 Chemistry MCQ – Modern Periodic Law and the Present Form of the Periodic Table

This set of Class 11 Chemistry Chapter 3 Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Modern Periodic Law and the Present Form of the Periodic Table”.

1. ____________ observed the X-rays’ characteristics.
a) Henry Moseley
b) Mendeleev
c) Pauli
d) Newland
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Answer: a
Explanation: Henry Moseley was an English physicist whose is know for modification of Mendeleev’s periodic table as he found out that atomic number is more prominent than atomic weight by his observation in regularities in characteristics in X-rays.

2. The graph of \(\sqrt{v}\) Vs Z gives a straight line.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: In the above statement v represents the frequency of X-rays emitted and Z depicts atomic number, but not the mass number. Henry Moseley found out that atomic number is more prominent than atomic weight by this graph.

3. The physical and chemical properties of an element are the periodic function of its _________
a) Atomic mass
b) Element behaviour
c) No of electrons
d) Atomic number
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Answer: d
Explanation: The above statement that the periodic function of the atomic number states the physical and chemical properties of that element is the modern periodic law is changed according to Henry Moseley by these experiments.
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4. What does Z represent in the above graph?
Graph states Henry Moseley’s law for frequency of X-rays emitted & Z depicts atomic number
a) Atomic mass
b) Atomic number
c) Frequency
d) Wavelength
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Answer: b
Explanation: The above graph states Henry Moseley’s law, where v represents the frequency of X-rays emitted and Z depicts atomic number. It states that the atomic number is more prominent than atomic weight in case of periodic classification.

5. Henry Moseley’s law is given by the equation \(\sqrt{v}\) = a(Z – b). What do a and b represent here?
a) The proportionality constant, screening constant
b) Screening constant, proportionality constant
c) Absorption constant, proportionality constant
d) screening constant, Boltzmann constant
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Answer: a
Explanation: In the equation \(\sqrt{v}\) = a(Z – b), a represents proportionality constant and b represents screening constant.a and b are independent by not depending on the target’s nature. The above equation is the result of Henry Moseley’s law of the modern periodic table.
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6. The horizontal rows in Mendeleev’s periodic table were called as __________
a) periods
b) groups
c) series
d) rows
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Answer: c
Explanation: A Russian chemist named Dmitri Mendeleev classified elements based on chemical and physical properties in ascending order of their atomic weights. The number of groups was 8 (vertical columns) and there were 12 series (horizontal rows).

7. In the modern long-form of periodic table, the horizontal rows and the vertical columns are called as __________ and ___________ respectively.
a) groups, periods
b) periods, groups
c) rows, columns
d) columns, rows
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Answer: b
Explanation: In the most convenient and widely used periodic table of the long-form that is the modern version, the horizontal rows and the vertical columns are called as periods (series as per Mendeleev) and groups respectively.
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8. The period’s number corresponds to the highest _________
a) Azimuthal quantum number
b) Spin quantum number
c) Magnetic quantum number
d) Principal quantum number
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Answer: d
Explanation: As seen in the most convenient and widely used periodic table of the long-form that is the modern version, the horizontal rows that depict period number represent the highest principal quantum number of the atoms in the period.

9. Which was the incomplete period in the long-form of the modern periodic table?
a) 7th period
b) 4th period
c) 6th period
d) 2nd period
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Answer: a
Explanation: The 7th period follows the rule that the elements fill their 7s subshell first and then 5f, 6d and 7p (Plutonium is the exception). As the elements weren’t discovered completely, it was called the incomplete period.
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10. Which of the following period is the shortest one?
a) 1
b) 3
c) 2
d) 4
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Answer: a
Explanation: The first period is known as the shortest period among the seven periods of the periodic table this is because it contains only two elements; one of the two elements is hydrogen which belongs to alkali metal group and the other is the Helium which is a noble gas.

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