The Periodic Table
"What's in a... Square"
It's all in the family...
Organization is the Key!
Can't Get Smaller than This!
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The modern periodic table organizes elements according to this.

What is increasing atomic number?

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Groups on the periodic table go in this direction.

What are columns (up and down)?

100

The hippies are known to be very_______ because they want to live with less.

What is reactive?

100

The horizontal rows on the periodic table.

What are periods?

100

The atomic mass represents this. 

What is the number of protons in the atom?


200

What trend increases as you move from the middle of the periodic table to EITHER the left side or the right side in a period? 

How reactive the elements are! Period 1 and Period 7 are VERY reactive! 

200

The number of electrons you would expect to find in this element. 

What is 92?

200

The greedy ones are are this family.

What are the halogens?

200

The number of groups on the periodic table.

What is 18?

200

The part of the atom that has no mass.

What are electrons?

300

The three parts included for every element of the periodic table.

What is the atomic number, the atomic mass, and the chemical symbol?

300

How to go from atomic mass to mass number.

What is round to the nearest whole number?

300

Lanthanides are commonly used for this.

What is lighting?

300

The vertical columns on the periodic table.

What are groups or families?

300

The particles found in the nucleus.

What are protons and neutrons?


400

Periodic means this.

What is repeated in a pattern?

400

The abbreviation in the middle of the square is this.

What is the chemical symbol.

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The reason that noble gasses can be thought of as snobs.

What is their natural nonreactivity?

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Number of periods on the periodic table.

What is 7?

400
The most dense part of the atom.

What is the nucleus?

500

The elements that lanthanides are sandwiched between

What are La (Lanthanum) and Hf (Hafnium)?

500

The number of neutrons in this element. 

What is 146?

500

The chameleons are known for this.

What is looking like metals but behaving like non-metals?
500

This increases from left to right across a period.

What is the atomic number?

500

The charges of the three subatomic particles are this.

What is positive protons, negative electrons, and neutral neutrons?

600

The name of the person that is responsible for the arrangement of the current periodic table of elements.

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

600

The reason atomic masses are decimals.

What is that they are the average mass of all the isotopes?

600

Three reasons that the actinides can be thought of as monsters.

They are large, unstable, not naturally occurring, and radioactive?

600

Elements in the same group share these characteristics.

What are chemical and physical properties?

600

The unit of mass used to measure subatomic particles.

What is the AMU or Atomic Mass Unit?