Metals
Nonmetals
Metalloids
Vocabulary
Everything
100
True or False - Metals are malleable, ductile, and can carry an electric current.
What is true?
100
At room temperature, more than half of the nonmetal elements are
What is gases?
100
These elements have some properties of metals and some properties of nonmetals. They are called
What are metalloids?
100
If a material can be pulled out, or drawn, into a long wire it is
What is ductile?
100
Mendeleev created the first periodic table by arranging elements in order of increasing
What is atomic mass?
200
In the periodic table _____________ contains the most elements.
What is metals?
200
Nonmetals are located to the right/left of the metalloids on the periodic table.
What is right?
200
At room temperature metalloids are solids/liquids/gases?
What is solids?
200
The elements that do not ordinarily form compounds are
What is noble gases?
200
The atomic number of an element is based on the number of _____________ in its nucleus.
What is protons?
300
Most metals are ______________ at room temperature.
What is solids?
300
At room temperature nonmetals are solids/liquids/gases?
What is gases?
300
The most common metalloid is
What is silicon?
300
Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are part of a family called
What is halogens?
300
From an element's location in the periodic table, you can predict its ___________________.
What is properties?
400
Elements that easily transmit electricity and heat display the property known as
What is conductivity?
400
Most nonmetals tend to be dull and _______________.
What is brittle?
400
A metalloids most useful property is the ability to conduct
What is electric current?
400
Each element is given a specific __________ __________ that usually consists of one or two letters.
What is chemical symbol?
400
The elements in a column in the periodic table have similar
What is characteristics?
500
The chemical reactivity of metals tends to increase/decrease from left to right across the periodic table.
What is decrease?
500
True/false Many nonmetals can form compounds with other nonmetals.
What is true?
500
Metalloids are used to make ________________, substances that can conduct electric current under some conditions but not under other conditions.
What is a semiconductor?
500
A column of elements in the periodic table is called a group, or
What is family?
500
In the periodic table, the most reactive metals are found in Group ____, the first column on the left.
What is one (1)?
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