Organizing the Elements
Modern Periodic Table
Representative Groups
"A" Group Elements
"B" Group Elements
100
The first man to organize the elements into special groups.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
100
A row in the periodic table.
What is a period?
100
An electron that is in the highest occupied energy level of an atom.
What is a valence electron?
100
The element's whose symbol is K.
What is potassium?
100
The element whose symbol is Fe.
What is iron?
200
The man organized the elements into a table.
Who is Mendeleev?
200
A column in the periodic table.
What is a group?
200
The combined name of group 2A elements.
What are alkaline earth metals?
200
The symbol for sulfur.
What is S?
200
The symbol for mercury.
What is Hg?
300
The game that gave Mendeleev an idea on how to organize the elements.
What is solitaire?
300
How elements in the modern table are ordered.
What is by atomic numbers?
300
The number of valence electrons the carbon family has.
What is 4?
300
The element whose symbol is Sb.
What is antimony?
300
The symbol for Tungsten.
What is W?
400
The reason Mendeleev left empty spaces in his table.
What are undiscovered elements?
400
Isotope that serves as the basis for atomic mass units.
What is carbon-12?
400
The number of valence electrons noble gases have.
What is 8?
400
The most reactive nonmetal.
What is fluorine?
400
The symbol for gold.
What is Au?
500
The units that Mendeleev used to order the elements.
What is atomic mass?
500
Elements with properties that fall between those of metals and nonmetals
What are metalloids?
500
The only group that has all three states of matter.
What are the halogens?
500
The most reactive element of the periodic table.
What is francium?
500
The elements whose symbol is Ni.
What is nickel?
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