Rules and Principles
Quantum Numbers/Orbitals
Periodic Table Structure
Electron Configurations
Trends and Ions
100

This says that orbitals are filled from the lowest energy up.

What is the Aufbau principle?

100

This is the number of electrons that can occupy a single orbital.

What is two?

100

This is the name for a row of elements moving from left to right on the periodic table.

What is a period?

100

This is the term for electron configurations drawn with arrows.

What is orbital notation?

100

This is the name for a positively charged ion.

What is a cation?

200

This says that you cannot determine the location and speed of an electron at the same time.

What is the Heisenburg uncertainty principle?

200

This quantum number gives the overall energy level of an electron.

What is the principal quantum number?

200

This is the name for a column of elements moving from top to bottom along the periodic table.

What is a group?
200

This is the name, family, and block of the element with the noble gas configuration of [Ne]3s2.

What is magnesium, alkali earth (group 2), s block?

200

This ion is larger than a neutral atom.

What is an anion?

300

This says that two electrons in the same atom cannot have the same set of four quantum numbers.

What is the Pauli exclusion principle?

300

This quantum number gives the spin of an electron.

What is the spin quantum number?

300

This is another name for the d block.

What are the transition metals?

300

This is the name, family, and block of the element with the electron configuration of 1s22s22p63s23p64s1.

What is potassium, alkali metals (group 1), s block?

300

This is the term for how strongly an atom attracts electrons from other atoms.

What is electronegativity?

400

This says that each orbital in a given sublevel of equal energy should have one electron added before a second electron is added to any of them. Electrons in singly occupied orbitals must have the same spin.

What is Hund's rule?

400

This is the number of possible orientations for a d orbital.

What is five?

400

This group is located in group 18, at the far right of the periodic table.

What are the noble gases?

400

This is the name, family, and block of the element with the noble gas configuration of [Ar]4s23d104p5.

What is bromine, halogens (group 17), p block?

400

Atomic radius and ionic radius ______ from left to right and _____ from top to bottom along the periodic table.


What are decrease and increase?

500

This is the term used to indicate repeating properties of elements in the table.

What is periodic?

500

This is the total number of electrons that can be contained in a complete p orbital.

What is six?

500

This group is made up of very reactive bad-smelling non metals.

What are the halogens?

500

This is the name, group, and block of the element with the noble gas configuration of [Kr]5s24d5.

What is technetium, group 7, d block (transition metals)?

500

Ionization energy, electron affinity, and electronegativity _____ from left to right and _____ from top to bottom along the periodic table.

What are increase and decrease?