This tool organizes the known elements and predicts the properties of new ones.
What is the periodic table?
The lightest element.
What is hydrogen?
The first energy level holds this many electrons.
What are two electrons?
When atoms are arranged in order of increasing _____________, there is a periodic repetition of their physical and chemical properties
What is atomic number?
Two rows of elements that usually sit under the rest of the periodic table.
What are the lanthanides and actinides?
The property used to organize the periodic table.
What is atomic number?
This element has an atomic number of 45.
What is rhodium?
The third energy level holds this many electrons.
What are eight electrons?
This is a physical characteristic the group 1 elements have in common.
What is light weight, metallic, silvery-gray in color?
This group of elements starting with "h" reacts strongly with the alkali metals to form salts.
What are the halogens?
He put the elements into columns and in rows.
Who was Mendeleev?
This element has atomic number 12.
What is magnesium?
Beryllium has this many energy levels.
What is "two"?
These electrons are on the outermost energy level of an atom.
What are valence electrons?
Group of unreactive gases.
What are the noble gases?
Word for the columns of the periodic table.
What is a group?
The heaviest out of the trio of cobalt, rhodium, and iridium.
What is iridium?
What is magnesium?
This is a chemical characteristic that changes as group 1 elements increase in atomic number.
This type of element reacts strongly with water to create hydrogen gas.
What are the alkali metals?
The average mass of protons, neutrons, and electrons in all isotopes of an element.
What is the atomic mass?
All atoms of an element have the same number of these.
What are protons?
What is oxygen?
This is a physical characteristic that changes as group 1 elements increase in atomic number.
What is melting/boiling point?
This metal is famously unreactive.
What are noble metals such as silver, gold, and platinum?