Symbols
Names
Reading the Table
Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons
Periods and Groups
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H

What is hydrogen?

100

The chemical symbol for aluminum.

What is Al?

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The whole number, usually at the top of an element tile, by which the table is arranged.

What is the atomic number?

100

A positively charged subatomic particle.

What is a proton?

100

The name of groups 3-12.

What are the transition metals?

200

C

What is carbon?

200

The chemical symbol for helium.

What is He?

200

The number of capital letters allowed in a chemical symbol.

What is one?

200

A negatively charge subatomic particle.

What is an electron?

200

The name of group 2 elements.

What are the alkaline-earth metals?

300

Na

What is sodium?

300

The chemical symbol for chlorine.

What is Cl?

300

The language from which some element symbols (e.g. Au and Ag) are derived.

What is latin?

300

A neutrally-charged subatomic particle.

What is a neutron?

300

The group number of the halogens.

What is group 17? 

400

Sn

What is tin?

400
The chemical symbol for lead.

What is Pb?

400

The fractional number usually at the bottom of an element time that compares all elements to carbon-12.

What is the atomic mass number?

400

The dense, positively charged center of an atom.

What is the nucleus?

400

A virtually unreactive group of elements.

What are the noble gases?
500

Ts

What is tennessine?

500

The chemical symbol for platinum.

What is Pt?

500

Where nonmetals are located on the table.

What is to the right of the zig-zag line?

500

The subatomic particles responsible for virtually all of the mass of an atom.

What are the protons and neutrons?

500

The name of the most reactive metals on the periodic table.

What are the alkali metals?

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