Exciting Elements
An element that creates diamonds and pencils
What is carbon?
The state that Mr. Cericola is from.
This particle has a positive charge and is located in the nucleus
What is a proton?
Iron is an essential element for you to survive. This is the location of iron in your body.
What is your blood or bloodstream?
A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much is each?
Bat: $1.05
Ball: $0.05
The only liquid metal on the periodic table that is sometimes found in fish
What is mercury?
This is the name of Mr. Cericola's cat
What is Dusty?
This number determines the type of element
What is the number of protons/atomic number?
This is an acid that many people consume every day that is said to give stronger bones and teeth
What is milk?
It takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 toys. How many minutes will it take 10 machines to make 10 toys?
5 minutes
A toxic gas that was used as a chemical weapon in World War 1 that you might find near a pool.
This number is how many years Mr. Cericola has been teaching
This is his 5th year
This is what atoms try to do when bonding
What is achieve a full orbital of valence electrons?
This element is an explosive metal but if you don't eat any of it, you will find your muscles cramping
What is potassium?
Each day the amount of algae on a pond doubles in area. It takes 48 days for a pond to get 100% covered in algae. How many days does it take for the pond to be 50% covered?
47 days
The ancient Greeks discovered this element which they nicknamed aurum for its shinyness
What is gold (Au)?
The subject that Mr. Cericola studied in college?
Chemical Engineering
This is the name for a row in the Periodic Table of Elements
What is a period?
Steel is a mixture of two elements. These two elements are...
Iron and Carbon
The one who makes it, has no need of it.
The one who buys it, has no use for it.
The one who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
A coffin
The most abundance element in the universe. This element is what the sun uses to create the heat that fuels our lives
This is where Mr. Cericola went to college
What is Northwestern University
What is Noble Gases (Group 18)?
This substance is a treatment for cancer and also an ingredient in nuclear weapons
Uranium
There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there?
Three