Vocabulary
Parts of the Periodic Table
Ions and Isotopes
Elements
Toss Up
100
This is a positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom
What is a proton?
100
This is the name of a row in the periodic table
What is a period?
100
This is what changes when an ion is formed
What is the number of electrons?
100
This shows how many protons are in the nucleus of an atom
What is the atomic number?
100
This person developed the first periodic table
What is Dimitri Mendeleev?
200
This particle in the nucleus has no charge
What is a neutron?
200
This is the name of a column in the periodic table
What is a group?
200
This is what changes when an isotope is formed
What is the number of neutrons?
200
This is the abbreviated version of the element's name
What is the chemical symbol?
200
These particles make up the nucleus of a atom
What are protons and neutrons?
300
This is a negatively charged particle in an atom
What is an electron?
300
These are the types of elements in Group 18, on the far right side, of the periodic table
What are noble (or inert) gases?
300
This is what happens to the size of an atom when it loses and electron
What is it gets smaller?
300
These are the three most common elements in the human body
What are oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen?
300
These are the particles on the outside of the nucleus of an atom
What are electrons?
400
This is how likely an element is to undergo a chemical change
What is reactive?
400
These are the elements that make up a majority of the periodic table
What are transition metals?
400
This is what happens to the size of an atom when it gains and electron
What is it gets bigger?
400
This is the number that usually shows up as a decimal
What is atomic mass?
400
In the periodic table, atomic size increases in this manner
What is from top to bottom?
500
This is the process by which the nucleus of an atom releases energy and particles
What is radioactivity?
500
These are the elements that "stair-step" through the right side of the periodic table
What are metalloids?
500
This is what happens to the number of protons of an atom when an ion or isotope is formed
What is nothing (the number of protons does not change)?
500
These are the groups on the periodic table that are the MOST reactive
What are 1 and 17?
500
On the periodic table, this is the manner in which the density of the atoms are arranged
What is density increases from top to bottom AND from the outside to the inside of the table?
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