The Electron
Wavelength/Frequency
Orbitals
Periodic Table
Electron Configuration
100
The electron's lowest energy state.
What is its Ground State?
100
Represented by the Greek letter lambda, it is the distance between one crest to the next or one trough to the next.
What is wavelength?
100
The region of space around the nucleus in which electrons are most likely to be found.
What is an orbital?
100
The trend of the atomic radii of atoms as one moves down the Periodic Table.
What is getting bigger?
100
These electrons lie in the atom's outermost energy levels.
What are valence electrons?
200
The minimum amount of energy that can be gained or lost by an electron.
What is a Quantum?
200
The number of waves that pass a given point per second and represented by the Greek letter nu.
What is frequency?
200
This spherically shaped sub-level has a single orbital and can hold 2 electrons.
What is the s sub-level?
200
The Periodic Table is made of 3/4 of these.
What is metals?
200
Each electron occupies the lowest energy level available.
What is the Aufbau Principle?
300
An electron emits this as it jumps down to a lower state of energy.
What is a photon?
300
The wave's height from origin to a crest or from the origin to a trough.
What is amplitude?
300
This sub-level holds three dumbbell shaped orbitals and up to 6 electrons.
What is the p sub-level?
300
The Group Numbers IA, IIA, and IIIA - IIXA are indicative of a specific number of a particular subatomic particle.
What is the number of valence electrons?
300
1s^2 /2s^2/ 2p^6 /3s^2 /3p^6 /4s^2
What is Calcium?
400
E (photon) = h x v where h = 6.626 x 10^-34 J.s h represents this.
What is Plank's constant?
400
c = wavelength x frequency c = 3 x 10^8 m/s c represents this.
What is the speed of light?
400
The principle that states that it is fundamentally impossible to know precisely both the velocity and position of a particle at the same time.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
400
These two groups of metals are highly reactive.
What are Alkali Metals and Alkaline Earth Metals?
400
The full electron configuration of Carbon.
What is 1s^2 /2s^2 /2p^6 ?
500
Atoms tend to gain, lose or share electrons in order to acquire a full set of eight valence electrons.
What is the Octet Rule?
500
A kind of radiation including visible light, radio waves, gamma rays, and X-rays, in which electric and magnetic fields vary simultaneously.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
500
A principle that states that a maximum number of two electrons can occupy a single atomic orbital, but only if the electrons have opposite spins.
What is Pauli's Exclusion Principle?
500
This group is comprised of nonreactive elements known as inert gases.
What is Group 18 or Noble Gases?
500
This element uses the Noble Gas Notation: [Ar]4s^1
What is Potassium?
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