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The horizontal row in the periodic table
What is: period?
The vertical column in the periodic table
What is: group?
All elements classified into 3 categories
What is: metals, nonmetals, metalloids?
Elements that gain or lose electrons and become charged
What is: ion?
Argon is inert, which means...
What is: unreactive?
A metalloid / semiconductor
What is: B, Si, Ge, As, Sb, Te, Po?
Difference between metals & nonmetals
What is: metals = shiny & conductors?
Elements in the same group have the same
An alkali Earth metal
What is: Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra?
An alkali metal
What is: Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr?
The group phosphorus (P) is in
What is: 15?
The period silver (Ag) is in
What is: 5?
Family chlorine (Cl) is in
What is: halogen?
Family strontium (Sr) is in
What is: alkali Earth metal?
The period cadmium (Cd) is in
What is: 5?
Element in group 18, period 5
What is: Xe?
Element in group 16, period 5
What is: Te (tellurium)?
Element in period 4, group 12
What is: Zn?
Element in group 9, period 6
What is: Ir (iridium)?
Element in group 1, period 7
What is: Fr (francium)?
3 elements important to organic matter (life)
What is: H, O, P, C, N?
Which has higher ionization energy: boron (B) or oxygen (O)
What is: oxygen?
Which is more electronegative: zirconium (Zr) or gallium (Ga)
What is: gallium (Ga)?
Which has higher ionization energy: iodine (I) or bromine (Br)
What is: bromine (Br)?
Potassium (K) or titanium (Ti) is more likely to attract bonding electrons
What is: titanium?