Periodic Table Basics
This is the chart scientists use to organize all known elements.
What is the periodic table?
This property means a material can be hammered into thin sheets.
What is malleability?
These highly reactive metals are found in Group 1.
What are alkali metals?
These elements are located in the center of the periodic table.
What are transition metals?
Metals are mostly located on this side of the periodic table.
What is the left side?
A horizontal row on the periodic table is called this.
What is a period?
This property means a material can be pulled into wires.
What is ductility?
These metals are found in Group 2 of the periodic table.
What are alkaline earth metals?
These elements are found in Group 18 and rarely react with other elements.
What are noble gases?
Transition metals are located in this section of the periodic table.
What is the middle/center?
A vertical column on the periodic table is called this.
What is a group?
The shininess of a metal is called this.
What is luster?
This type of element is found in the middle of the periodic table.
What is a transitional element (transition metal)?
Unlike noble gases, transition metals are usually good conductors of this.
What are heat and electricity?
Noble gases are found on this side of the periodic table.
What is the far right side?
Elements in the same group usually share these.
What are similar properties?
This measures how much mass is packed into a certain amount of space.
What is density?
Alkali metals are usually stored carefully because they react strongly with this substance.
What is water?
Noble gases are different from transition metals because noble gases are usually this.
What is unreactive (or inert)?
A zigzag staircase on the periodic table separates metals from these.
What are nonmetals?
The periodic table is organized by increasing __________.
What is atomic number?
Name two common properties of metals.
shiny, malleable, ductile, good conductors of heat/electricity.
Calcium and magnesium belong to this metal family.
What are alkaline earth metals?
Name one transition metal and one noble gas.
Possible answers: iron and neon, copper and helium, gold and argon, etc.
Alkali metals are found in this numbered group.
What is Group 1?