Chemical Bonding and Nomenclature - IPC

Ionic Bonds

100

A bond between a metal and a nonmetal

What is an ionic bond?

200

When metals lose electrons they form this positive ion

What is a cation?

300

When nonmetals gain electrons they form this negative ion

What is an anion?

400

The electrons in the outermost energy level of an element's atom

What are valence electrons?

500

The rule that states that in forming compounds, atoms tend to achieve the electron configuration of a noble gas, filling their outer shell with 8 electrons.

What is the octet rule?

Ionic Nomenclature

100

NaBr

What is sodium bromide?

200

BaF₂

What is barium fluoride?

300

CaCl₂

What is Calcium Chloride?

400

NaO

What is sodium oxide?

500

Al₂O₃

What is Aluminum Oxide?

Covalent Bonds

100

A bond between 2 or more nonmetals

What is a covalent bond?

200

In covalent bonds electrons are  ____________

What is shared?

300

Gilbert N. Lewis introduced these simple structural diagrams in 1916 that use dots to represent valence electrons in covalent bonds.

What are Lewis structures (or Lewis dot diagrams)

400

This simple gas released when we exhale consists of one carbon atom double-bonded to two oxygen atoms.

What is carbon dioxide CO₂? 

500

The simplest diatomic molecule, consisting of two hydrogen atoms sharing a single pair of electrons, has this chemical formula.

 What is H₂? 

Covalent Nomenclature

100

NO

What is nitrogen monoxide?

200

CO₂

What is carbon dioxide?

300

Formula for dinitrogen monoxide

What is N₂O

400

Formula for Tetraphosphorus decoxide

What is P₄O₁₀?

500

XeF₆

What is xenon hexafluoride?

Mystery!

100

Atoms that have gained or lost an electron, giving them a positive or negative charge.

What is an ion? 

200

The compound C₂H₄ is a ___________ bond.

What is covalent?

300

The ionic charge of elements in Group 2A.

What is +2?

400

The Greek prefix for 7.

What is hepta?

500

The number of atoms in:

3 Na₂SO₄

What is 21 total atoms?