Categories/Groups/Periods
What category is Mercury (Hg) in?
What is metal
Created the 1st Periodic Table
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev
What Ion does Oxygen (O) like to form?
What is a -2 ion
This is the most stable family on the table.
What is the Noble Gases
This element is in its own family
What is Hydrogen
What group and period is Zirconium (Zr) in?
Group 4B , Period 5
Mendeleev arranged the Periodic table according to what?
Atomic mass and properties
What Ion does Calcium like to form?
What is a +2 ion
This is the most reactive group of metals, and they are soft enough to cut with a knife.
What are the Alkali Metals
A charged atom
What is an ion
What category is Iodine (I) in?
What is nonmetals
Why did Mendeleev create the Periodic Table?
What is he was trying to finish his Chemistry Textbook
How is a (+) ion formed?
What is the loss of electrons.
This is the biggest family on the table and has many good conductors.
What are the Transition Metals
Electrons that are found in the outermost energy level
What is Valence Electrons
What category is Hydrogen (H) in?
What is nonmetals
This person rearranged the periodic table by Atomic Number and properties after the Nucleus was discovered.
Who is Henry Moseley
How is a (-) ion formed?
What is the addition of electrons.
This family can have properties of both metals and nonmetals
What are the Metalloids (Semiconductors)
Law that states the chemical and physical properties of elements change periodically with the atomic numbers of the elements.
What is Periodic Law
What group and period is Gallium (Ga) in?
Group 3A , Period 4
Mendeleev left well placed blanks in his table for this reason.
What is he did not feel an element fit there, and predicted one would be discovered.
What Ion does Silicon (Si) like to form?
What is a +/- 4 ion.
This family loves to borrow a few electrons from surrounding elements and are essential to life.
What are the Other Nonmetals
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