Vocabulary
Horizontal rows of the periodic table
Na
What is Sodium?
What is K?
Vertical columns of the periodic table
What are Groups?
This determines the identity of an element
What is the number of protons?
The atomic number tells you this about an element
What is the Number of Protons? (& Electrons)?
Cl
What is Chlorine?
The chemical symbol for Silver
What is Ag?
The smallest particle that has the properties of an element
What is an Atom?
Number of periods on the periodic table
What is 7?
Number of columns on the periodic table
What is 18?
Fe
What is Iron?
The symbol for Calcium
What is Ca?
What are Protons?
An element that has properties of both a metal and nonmetal
What are metalloids?
Atoms having the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons
What are isotopes?
He
What is Helium?
This element has the symbol Br
What is Bromine?
The periodic table is primarily used to organize this
What are elements?
What is an Ion?
Total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom
What is Mass Number?
S
What is Sulfur?
Symbol for Radon
What is Rn?
Elements in the same group generally have this type of similar property
What is Chemical?
Process of adding electrons to or removing electrons from an atom or group of atoms
What is Ionization?