Mole Day Celebration
Scavenger Hunt
Name: ______Block: ___ Date: ______
Your task is to find answers to or calculate as many of following as possible. You will be
graded according to the Mole Day Rubric.
The scavenger hunt is part of your Mole Day project grade. It is due at the beginning of
your class period on October 25th. Write your answers neatly on notebook paper. For
all calculations you must show your work.
1. What item used everyday in every school is made of carbon?
2. Name one substance made from silicon dioxide?
3. What do we call the mixture that consists of 78% of nitrogen and 21% oxygen?
4. List the name of one object made of the polymer P.E.T.E.
5. Object containing both elements #29 and 30 with element 30 on the inside.
6. Avogadro’s first name.
7. Who first introduced the terms anode, cathode, and ion and discovered the laws of electrolysis?
8. What visual problem did John Dalton have?
9. What did Werner Heisenberg do in World War II?
10. Who first proposed the existence of antimatter?
11. What was the most recent element named and added to the periodic table?
12. What element makes green fireworks green?
13. Who first discovered the charge of the electron?
14. Avogadro’s number to eight significant figures.
15. The height of your science desk in cm.
16. The temperature of the classroom in degrees K.
17. How old would Avagadro be at 6:02 am on October 23rd of this year. Imagine he was born at 12:15am. You must give the answer in miuntes. Please show all work.
18. The volume of your science desktop (just the black portion) in some sort of metric units.
19. The mass of your sneaker.
20. A periodic table.
21. What is Avogadro’s law?
22. Who wrote The Periodic Kingdom?
23. How did Antoine Lavoisier die?
24. What is the structural formula for caffeine?
25. Who won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry?