Vocabulary
Naming The Elements
Metals
Non Metals
Metalloids
100
The smallest particle that has the properties of an element
What is the atom?
100
The element Li
What is Lithium?
100
Where are the metals located?
What is a stair-stepped line starting at Boron (B), atomic number 5, and going all the way down to Polonium (Po), atomic number 84. All the elements to the left of that line can be classified as metals except for Germanium (Ge) and Antimony (Sb).
100
The location of non-metal elements
What is all the elements to the right of the stair-stepped line of metalloids?
100
The elements that border the stair-stepped line
Where are the metalloids?
200
An electron in the outermost energy level of an atom
What is a valance electron?
200
Mn
What is the symbol for Manganese?
200
What are the properties of metals?
They are solid, shiny, ductile, and malleable.
200
The characteristics of a non-metal
What is brittle, non malleable, a poor conductor of both heat and electricity, and a tendency to gain electrons in chemical reactions?
200
The properties of a metalloid
What are the properties of both metals and non metals?
300
The difference between a period and a group on the periodic table
What is the horizontal row of elements on the periodic table versus what is the vertical column of elements on the periodic table?
300
Vanadium
What is the name for symbol V?
300
Do metals lose their electrons easily, quickly, or not at all?
What is quickly?
300
Group 17. They consist of fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At). What is the same for them?
What are the Halogens?
300
Surprise Question! Elements in the same group or column have
What is similar properties?
400
The process of adding electrons to or removing electrons from an atom or group of atoms
What is the process of ionization?
400
Strontium.
What is Sr on the periodic table?
400
The most reactive group of metals
What is Group 1?
400
What are the noble gases and where are they located?
What is Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), the radioactive Radon (Rn), and group 18?
400
Common uses for metalloids include but are not limited to
What are computer chips and calculators?
500
An ion with a positive charge and an ion with a negative charge
What is a cation and an anion?
500
Does Cobalt or Nickel have a higher boiling point?
What is Cobalt?
500
Surprise Question! Which elements are the diatomic elements?
They are hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, flourine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine.
500
The 17 non-metals in the periodic table that are liquids
What is Helium, Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon, Selenium, Bromine, Krypton, Iodine, Xenon, and Radon?
500
The metalloids on the period table include
What are Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, and Astatine?
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