Atoms
Chemical Reactions
Periodic Table
Vocabulary
100

Atoms. 

What makes up everything around us?

100

When one substance reacts with another to produce a new substance. 

What are chemical reactions?

100

A chart of systematically grouped elements.

What is the periodic table?

100

An equation used to model a chemical reaction.

What is a chemical equation?

200

Protons, neutrons, and electrons

What makes up atoms?

200

Reactions that absorb heat.

What are endothermic reactions?

200

By atomic number and similar properties.

How is the periodic table grouped?

200

Electron cloud. 

Where do electrons go when they go around the nucleus of an atom?

300

Protons are positive, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no charges at all. 

What are the charges of protons, electrons, and neutrons? 

300

Reactions that release heat.

What are exothermic reactions?

300

Dmitri Mendeleev. 

Who created the first version of the Periodic Table?

300

The average mass of the element.

What is a mass number?

400

Electrons

Which particle weighs almost nothing?

400

They speed up a reaction without changing itself. 

What is a catalyst?

400

Metals, metalloids, and nonmetals.

In what three categories are the elements grouped in?

400

One of the substances that react with the other.

What is a reactant?
500

John Dalton

Who was the earliest scientist who contributed to the modern atomic theory?

500

They slow down a reaction. 

What is an inhibitor?

500

Henry Moseley.

Who edited the periodic table after Mendeleev? 

500

A group of elements with some properties of metals and some properties of nonmetals.

What is a metalloid?

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