Periodic Table
The rows of the periodic table
What are periods?
The ability to attract to a magnet.
What is magnetism?
The number pattern of electrons on the 4 shells
What is 2-8-8-2
The positive subatomic part of an atom
What is a proton?
These live on the outside shell of an atom
What is valence electrons?
The columns of the periodic table (up and down).
What are groups?
All matter is composed of this
What is atoms?
The period number tells you this about an element
What is the number of electron shells?
The direction in which electrons move in an element
What is every which way?
The negative subatomic part of an atom
What are electrons?
Subtracting the atomic # from the AMU gives you these
What are neutrons?
The smallest subatomic particle in an atom
What is an electron?
In a stable atom, there are always the same number of these two subatomic particles
What are electrons and protons?
The two subatomic parts that are inside the nucleus of an atom
What are protons and neutrons?
The symbol for Potassium
What is K?
The abbreviation for Helium
What is He?
A substance that can't be broken down in to anything smaller
What is an element?
These are filled from inside to outside when drawing an atom
What are electron shells?
The only element that has 0 neutrons
What is Hydrogen?
All of the invisible electron shells make up this.
What is the electron cloud?
The element family that looks like metals but acts like nonmetals
What is Metalloids?
The element family that explodes when it touches water
What are Alkali metals
The only element we are studying in the Poor Metal family
What is Aluminum?
This family has the element Carbon, which is required for ALL life on Earth.
What is Nonmetals?
The elements in this family don't bond with any other elements
What are Noble Gases?