Periodic Table
Rows & Columns
Who Am I?
Patterns
History of the Atom
100

This person is credited with creating the Periodic Table

Dmitri Mendeleev

100
Another name for a row.

Period

100

I have 9 protons, who am I?

Fluorine

100

Elements in the same ______ share the similar properties.

Group/Family/Column

100

This was the first man to propose the idea of "atomos" the smallest particle that could not be divided.

Democritus

200

Period 5, Group 10

Palladium

200

If you rip the transition metals out of the periodic table, the group number corresponds to this.

# of valence electrons.
200

Group 17, Period 4.

DAILY DOUBLE: If you can tell me how many neutrons it has, double the points!

Bromine, 45 neutrons (80-35).

200

Which element has the same amount of valence electrons as Phosphorous?

A. Nitrogen

B. Sulphur

C. Germanium

D. Argon

A. Nitrogen

200

J.J. Thomson was responsible for this model.

Plum Pudding Model

300

Period 6, Group 4... how many energy levels do I have?

6 (Period 6).

300

Group 13 is also called this.

Boron Family

300

Group 11, Period 5

Silver (Ag)

300

As you go ACROSS the Periodic Table, this number always gets bigger.

Atomic Number

300

This man is responsible for creating the "valence electron model"... the one we used to discover the patterns of the periodic table.

Bohr Model

400

This element is in all living organisms

Carbon

400

Element Reactivity goes in this direction.

Right to Left, Up to Down

400

I have 5 valence electrons and 6 energy levels... who am I?

Bismuth

400

This group all has 0 valence electrons (because their shells are full). 

Noble Gases (Group 18)

400

This scientist finally discovered the last sub atomic particle of the atom yet to be found. DAILY DOUBLE: Double the points if you can name the particle AND the scientist!


James Chadwick

500

The "Black Staircase" on the Periodic Table separates what? 

Metals and Non-metals (Metalloids along the staircase).

500

Group 2 is also called this.

Alkali Earth Metal Family

500

I am in the same family as Lithium, but I have 5 more energy levels than it. Who am I?

Francium

500

What is the ion formation of Carbon?

4+/-

500

These two men discovered quarks.

Murray Gell-Mann & George Zweig