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100

Group 1 on the periodic table.

What are the Alkali Metals?

100

This type of element has properties of both metals and nonmetals.

Metalloid or Semi-Metal

100

This element has 4 valence electrons and is in period 3.

What is Silicon?

100

This sublevel can hold 2 electrons.

What is the 2 sublevel?

100

The periodic table is arranged in this order.

What is increasing atomic number?

200

Any element to the right of the zigzag.

What are nonmetals?

200

This type of element is malleable.

What is a metal?

200

This element has 7 valence electrons and 53 protons.

What is Iodine?

200

This sublevel can hold up to 10 electrons.

What is the d sublevel?

200

This person developed the first periodic table.

Who is Mendeleev?

300

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?

300

This is the name given to elements in the s and p blocks.

What are Representative Elements?

300
The number of valence electrons in Aluminum.

What is 3?

300

The transition metals belong to this sublevel.

What is the d sublevel?

300

These are the only 2 elements that exist as liquids at room temperature.

What are Bromine and Mercury?

400

These elements only exist as a pair or combined with another element.

What are Diatomic Molecules?

400
Fluroine, Chlorine, and Bromine belong to this category of metals.

What are the halogens?

400

This element is in period 3 group 2.

What is Magnesium?

400

The 4f elements are known as these.

What are the actinides?

400

This element's electron configuration notation ends in 3p3.

What is Phosphorus?

500

These elements are all poor conductors, and can be solids, liquids, or gases.

What are the nonmetals?

500

Calcium and Magnesium belong to Group 2 of the periodic table, also known as this.

What are the Alkaline Earth Metals?

500

This element's electron configuration is 1s22s22p63s1.

What is Sodium?

500

The inner transition metals fill in this sublevel.

What is the f sublevel?

500

Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine are known as these.

What are diatomic molecules?

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