Read the Table
What is the name for a horizontal row?
Period
Which category contains most of the elements?
Metals
What family is group 8A?
Noble gasses
What are valence electrons?
Electrons in the outermost energy level
I am in Group 8A and Period 2. What element am I?
Neon
What group is oxygen in?
Group 6A
Is silicon a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid?
Metalloid
What family is group 7A?
Halogens
How many valence electrons does an element in Group 1A have?
1
I am in Group 1 and Period 3. What element am I?
Sodium
What period is calcium in?
Period 4
Is aluminum a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid?
Metal
What family is group 1?
Alkali Metals
How many valence electrons does sulfur have?
6
I am a metalloid in Period 3. What element am I?
Silicon
Find Chorine. Give its group, period, and family.
Group 17, Period 3, halogen
Find an element that is both a metal and in Period 3. Give its name and symbol.
Sodium, Magnesium, or Aluminum.
Find an element that is in the halogen family that is in Period 3.
Chlorine
An element is in Group 6A and Period 2. How many valence electrons does it have, and what element is it?
Oxygen, 6 valence electrons
I am a nonmetal in Period 3 with 7 valence electrons. What element am I?
Chlorine
Find the element that is in Period 4, Group 2. Give its name, symbol, family, and number of valence electrons.
Calcium, Ca, Group 2, alkaline earth metal, 2 valence electrons
Find one metal, one metalloid, and one nonmetal that are all in Period 3.
Multiple answers.
Find the element in Group 7A, Period 4. Give its name, symbol, and family
Bromine, Br, halogen
Find the element in Period 3 with 6 valence electrons. Give its name, symbol, group, and family.
Sulfur, S, Group 6A, oxygen family.
I am in Period 4. I am a metal. I belong to the alkaline earth metals. What element am I?
Calcium