Periodic Table of Elements Jeopardy Game

History of Periodic Table

100

First-person to introduced the term atoms

Democritus 

200

Model: Electrons in a positive cloud

Plum Pudding Model

300

How is the periodic table arranged today?

By atomic number.

400

Model: Electrons in orbits around the nucleus

Planetary Model

500

Model: Electrons located in probability zones.

Quantum Mechanical Model

Periodic Trends

100

What is the distance from the center of an atom's nucleus to its outer most electron?

Atomic Radius

200

What is the term that refers to the energy need to remove an atom's electron?

Ionization Energy

300

What is the name of the term that describes the attraction of electrons?

Electronegativity

400

Where is ionization energy the highest? Electronegativity?

Ionization --> He

Electronegativity -->F

500

Ionization energy ____________ as you go from left to right across a period and ___________ as you go from top to bottom of a family.

Increases, decreases.

Element Identification

100

What is the name of element number 106 and what is the atomic number?

Seaborgium, 106.

200

What element has an atomic mass of 238.

U, Uranium

300

What is the name of the element with the elemental symbol Zr?

Zirconium

400

Which element has 42 as its atomic number?

Mo, Molybdenum

500

What element has the elemental symbol Uuu?

Unununium

Elemental Groups

100

What are the names of the groups that are the most reactive groups in the s-block of the periodic table of elements?

Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earth Metals

200

Which group of elements play an important role in living organisms, and are also extremely valuable as strong, structural useful materials AND make up the d-block on the periodic table?

Transitional Metals

300

The elements boron (B), aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), and thallium (Ti), belong in which group?

Group 13

400

Which elements belong in Group 14?

Carbon (C), Silicon (Si), Germanium (G), Tin (Sn), and Lead (Pb)

500

Name the group which contains the elements: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Arsenic (As), Antimony (Sb), and Bismuth (Bi)

Group 15

Electron Configuration

100

What does the term "valence" mean?

Outermost electrons

200

1S^2 is the electron configuration of what element?

Helium

300

What is the electron configuration of Neon?

1s²2s²2p⁶

400

What is the electron configuration of sodium?

1s²2s²2p⁶3s¹

500

What does the electron configuration of an element reveal about that element?

How the electrons are arranged in an atom.