Sections of the PT
Light
The Periodic Table
The Atom
Vocabulary
100
The family which is satisfied by the octet rule.
What is The Noble Gases?
100
True or False: The wavelength and energy of light are inversely proportional to each other.
What is True?
100
The family that adopts a charge of +1 to satisfy the octet rule.
What is the alkali metals?
100
He developed the model that shows electrons embedded in a sea of positive charge
Who is Thomson?
100
The fixed energies an electron can have.
What are energy levels? What are quanta?
200
The most reactive nonmetal
What is Fluorine?
200
A wave’s length from crest to crest.
What is wavelength?
200
As more electrons and protons are added to atoms of the same period, the attraction between them increases. What trend does this explain well?
What is the decrease of atomic radius?
200
When an atom loses electrons , it becomes one of these
What is a cation?
200
The energy needed to remove a valence electron
What is Ionization Energy?
300
The most metallic element of group 2
What is Radium?
300
The spectrum of lines define the jump that the electron takes.
What are quantum leaps?
300
The current periodic table was arranged by Moseley. He arranged the periodic table this way in order of increasing _____.
What is atomic number?
300
This person said, electrons do not orbit around the nucleus, as planets orbit around the sun. There are many areas of probable locations for these electrons, each having a definite energy.
Who is Schrodinger?
300
An electron in the highest occupied energy level of an atom.
What is a valence electron?
400
The section which divides the metals from the nonmetals
What is the metalloids?
400
A quantum of light; a discrete bundle of electromagnetic energy, with no mass that interacts with matter similarly to particles.
What is a photon?
400
Rutherford was unable to completely explain why the electrons don't get pulled into the nucleus, since they have the opposite charge. Why not?
What is he didn't know about the neutrons and the strong nuclear force?
400
Besides heating, this is a way to excite electrons in neon atoms.
What is applying a volatge across is (electricity)
400
The amount of energy needed to move an electron down from one energy level to another.
What is a quantum leap?
500
These two series are taken from inside the transition metals
What are the lanthanides and actinides?
500
The light emitted by an electron moving from a _____ to a _____ energy level has a directly proportionality to the energy released by the electron.
What is higher:lower
500
When an electron releases photons of light, it is traveling closer to the nucleus or farther away from the nucleus?
What is closer to the nucleus?
500
Which energy level of the calcium atom would have the most energy?
What is Energy level four?
500
The instrument used to visualize the atomic emission spectrum
What is the Spectroscope?
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