What are Protons and Neutrons?
Basic particle from which all elements are made
What are atoms?
What has the same number of energy levels?
Number of groups on the periodic table
What is 18 groups?
The number of protons, neutrons, and electrons Aluminum
What is 13 protons, 14 neutrons, 13 electrons?
Elements in the same group have
What are similar characteristics and the same number of valence electrons?
A substance that can not be broken down into a simpler substance
What is an element?
The most reactive group on the periodic table.
What is group 1 (alkali metals)?
On a periodic table the atomic number determines how many _______ are in the nucleus of the atom.
What are protons and electrons?
The number of electrons in Oxygen
What is 8 electrons
Where electrons are found
What are energy levels, shells, or orbitals?
Determines the atomic number of an element
The group known as the Halogens and is the most reactive group of the nonmetals.
What is group 17?
Number of electrons the 1st energy level of an atom holds
What are two electrons?
Number of neutrons in Carbon
What is 6 neutrons?
Are positively charged
What is a proton?
Makes up the atomic mass of an element
What are protons and neutrons?
Number of valence electrons for elements in group 15.
What are 5 valence electrons?
Least reactive group on the periodic table.
What is group 18 (noble gasses)?
Elements that are shiny, malleable (can be hammered into shapes without breaking), ductile (easily drawn out into thin wires), and conduct electricity
What are metals? (Ex. Magnesium, Lithium)
Most of the elements on the periodic table are classified as this (metals, nonmetals, or metalloids)
What are metals?
The special name given to the electrons in the outermost (last) energy level
What are valence electrons?
Number of valence electrons in Silicon?
What is 4 valence electrons?
Bohr model of Neon
Elements that are not lustrous, malleable, or ductile, have low melting/boiling points, and are poor conductors of heat and electricity.
What are nonmetals? (Carbon, Nitrogen, Helium)