Definitions
Group 1 on the periodic table.
What are the Alkali Metals?
This type of element has properties of both metals and nonmetals.
Metalloid or Semi-Metal
This element has 4 valence electrons and is in period 3.
What is Silicon?
This sublevel can hold 2 electrons.
What is the 2 sublevel?
The periodic table is arranged in this order.
What is increasing atomic number?
Any element to the right of the zigzag.
What are nonmetals?
This type of element is malleable.
What is a metal?
This element has 7 valence electrons and 53 protons.
What is Iodine?
This sublevel can hold up to 10 electrons.
What is the d sublevel?
This person developed the first periodic table.
Who is Mendeleev?
These electrons are in the highest energy level of an atom, and are available to be lost, gained, or shared in the formation of a chemical bond.
What are valence electrons?
This is the name given to elements in the s and p blocks.
What are Representative Elements?
What is 3?
The transition metals belong to this sublevel.
What is the d sublevel?
These are the only 2 elements that exist as liquids at room temperature.
What are Bromine and Mercury?
These elements only exist as a pair or combined with another element.
What are Diatomic Molecules?
What are the halogens?
This element is in period 3 group 2.
What is Magnesium?
The 4f elements are known as these.
What are the actinides?
This element's electron configuration notation ends in 3p3.
What is Phosphorus?
These elements are all poor conductors, and can be solids, liquids, or gases.
What are the nonmetals?
Calcium and Magnesium belong to Group 2 of the periodic table, also known as this.
What are the Alkaline Earth Metals?
This element's electron configuration is 1s22s22p63s1.
What is Sodium?
The inner transition metals fill in this sublevel.
What is the f sublevel?
Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine are known as these.
What are diatomic molecules?