History of the Periodic Table
Terminology
Trends 1
Families
Grab Bag
100

The last name of the scientist who created the modern periodic table. 

What is Mendeleev? 

100
A row on the periodic table. 

What is a period 

100

The least reactive nonmetals

What are Noble Gases?
100

The two types of metals that are so reactive, that they are never found alone in nature. 

What are alkali metals and alkaline earth metals?

100

The category that Silicon, Antimony, and Polonium all belong to. 

What are metalloids? 

200

The four groups Lavoisier grouped elements into. 

What were metals, nonmetals, gases, and earth? 

200

The TWO names for a column on the periodic table 

What is a family and a group? (Or what is a group and a family) 

200

The most reactive metals. 

What are alkali metals? 

200

A family of elements that are useful in small amounts and dangerous in large amounts. 

What are halogens? 

200

The metal that is most reactive- Tin or Rubidium. 

What is Rubidium? 

300

The way Mendeleev arranged the chemical elements he knew of. 

What was by increasing mass?

300

The glass that is made up of boron, silicon, and oxygen that can withstand being heated and cooled rapidly. 

What is Pyrex? 

300

The most reactive nonmetals. 

What are halogens? 

300

The amount of valence electrons the carbon family has. 

What is 4? 

300

The metal that is most reactive- Lithium or Francium. 

What is Francium? 

400

The unknown element he predicted would have properties similar to those of aluminum

What is Eka-aluminum? 

400

An element that is a good conductor of heat and electricity, malleable, has luster, and is ductile. 

What is a metal? 

400

How properties on the periodic table repeat. 

What is from period to period (row to row)? 

400

The number of valence electrons helium has.  

What is 2? 

400

The nonmetal that is most reactive- Fluorine or Carbon.

What is Fluorine? 

500

The evidence that Mendeleev's periodic table was useful. 

What is the discovery of elements with predicted properties?

500

An element that is a poor conductor of electricity and heat, dull, brittle, not malleable, lower densities than metal, and mainly gas at room temperature.  


What is a nonmetal? 

500

The number of valence electrons the most reactive elements have. 

What is 1 or 7? 
500

The way in which the number of valence electrons changes as you go from left to right across a period. 

What is increasing by one? 

500

The nonmetal that is most reactive- Astatine or Chlorine. 

What is Chlorine?