Vocabulary
Atomic Theory
The Periodic Table
Bonding & the Periodic Table
Types of Bonds
100

This is the smallest particle that still can be considered an element

What is an atom?

100

This grew as a series of models that developed from experimental evidence

What is atomic theory?

100

A chart showing all the elements arranged according to the repeating pattern of their properties

What is the periodic table?

100

These are the electrons that have the highest energy & are in the outermost energy level

What are valence electrons?
100

An ion made of more than 1 atom is called this

What is polyatomic?

200

This is the average mass of all the isotopes of that element

What is atomic mass?

200

JJ Thomson discovered that atoms contain these negatively charged particles

What are electrons?

200

A one- or two-letter abbreviation for an element

What is a chemical symbol?
200

Daily Double

The ease & speed with which an element combines with other substances is called this

Daily Double

What is its reactivity?

200

When atoms that easily lose electrons react with atoms that easily gain electrons, they transfer valence electrons to form this

What is an ionic bond?

300

Substances that form when atoms from 2 or more elements bond together

What are compounds?

300

The dense center in the middle of an atom

What is the nucleus?

300

Rows in the periodic table are known as these

What are periods?

300
This kind of material can be hammered or rolled into flat sheets or other shapes

What is malleable?

300

The chemical bond formed when 2 atoms share electrons is called this

What is a covalent bond?

400

An atom or group of atoms that has either a positive or negative charge

What is an ion?

400

Rutherford called positively-charged particles in an atom's nucleus these

What are protons?

400

Atoms with similar characteristics are classified into these, or columns in the periodic table

What are groups?

400

This material is one that can be pulled out, or drawn, into long wires

What is ductile?

400

This is a neutral group of atoms joined by covalent bonds

What is a molecule?

500

A compound that reacts with metals & carbonates, tastes sour, & turns blue litmus paper red

What is an acid?

500

A particle in the nucleus of an atom.  It took scientists a long time to discover it because it has no charge

What is a neutron?

500

What does each piece of information on this periodic table square mean?

Atomic number

Chemical symbol

Element name

Atomic mass

500

Thermal conductivity is the ability of an object to do this to heat

What is transfer?

500
Daily Double

A covalent bond in which electrons are shared equally

Daily Double

What is a non polar bond?

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