Mystery
Names
Symbols
Periodic table
Vocabulary
100

Scientific notation for 0.0098

What is 9.8 x 10-3?

100

Zinc

What is Zn

100

N

What is Nitrogen?

100

This physicist re-organized the periodic table using atomic numbers.

Who is Henry Moseley?

100

any material that cannot be broken down by chemical means into simpler materials

What is an element?

200

We use this piece of lab equipment to measure mass

What is a triple-beam balance?

200

Phosphorus

What is P

200

Mn

What is manganese?

200

First scientist to organize elements into a periodic table. 

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

200

a property that is observed by trying to change the identity of a substance in a chemical reaction

What is a chemical property?

300

Standard notation for 5.4 x 10-3

What is 0.0054 

300

Gold

What is Au

300

Ne

What is Neon?

300

This number determines the order of the elements on the periodic table.

What is the atomic number?

300

Examples are color, malleability, solubility, and density

What is a physical property?

400

Liquid, solid, and gas are all examples of this

What is a state of matter? 

400

Iron

What is Fe

400
Sc

What is scandium?

400

Another name for the rows of a periodic table

What is period?

400

an organization system for the elements

What is the periodic table? 

500

Atomic number for oxygen

What is 8

500

Chromium

What is Cr

500

K

What is potassium? 

500

Another name for a column of elements in the periodic table. 

What is a group?

500

smallest unit of an element 

What is an atom?

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