iGCSE Chemistry

Names of elements

100

C

What is Carbon?

200

H

What is Hydrogen?

300

He

What is Helium?

400

Na

What is Sodium?

500

Es

What is Einsteinium?

Parts of the Periodic Table

100

The vertical columns. There are eight of them. They include elements with similar properties.

What are the groups.

200

The type of elements on the left of the zigzag line.

What are metals?

300

The type of element on the right of the zigzag line.

What are non-metals?

400

The name for the horizontal rows.

What are periods?

500

The metals that are used as catalysts and form coloured compounds.

What are transition metals?

How many neutrons?

100

6

What is carbon?

200

5

What is Beryllium?

300

22

What is argon?

400

61

What is silver?

500

150

What is plutonium?

Ions

100

Sodium

What is Na⁺

200

Chlorine

What is Cl^-

300

Magnesium

What is Mg²⁺

400

Argon

There isn't one!

500

Copper

What are Cu⁺ and Cu²⁺?

Definitions

100

The smallest part of matter.

What is an atom?

200

Something which consists of only one type of atom.

What is an element?

300

Part of an atom with a positive charge.

What is a proton?

400

A particle which is charged because it has lost or gained an electron.

What is an ion?

500

A structure with an alternating pattern of positive and negative ions.

What is an ionic lattice?