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Metals/Nonmetals/Metalloids
Families and Groups
Periodic Table History
100

A horizontal row across the periodic table.

What is a period?

100

A vertical column on the periodic table

What is a group?

100

Which side of the periodic table are the nonmetals located?

What is the right side?

100

These elements are the least reactive and are named to hint at this property

What are the noble gasses?

100

Who is the father of the modern periodic table?

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

200

Which element has a greater ionization energy; lithium or boron?

What is boron?

200

Arrange the following elements in order of increasing ionization energy; beryllium, magnesium, and strontium.

What is strontium, magnesium, and beryllium?

200

Which elements are dull, brittle, and nonconductive?

What are nonmetals?

200

These are the elements we typically think of when we think of  a metal.

What are transition metals?

200

This scientist organized the periodic table by atomic number. We use this organization today!

Who is Henry Moseley.

300

Indicate which element has the greater atomic radius; carbon or germanium.

What is germanium?

300

Which group has 0 electronegativity?

What are the Noble Gasses

300

These elements are also called semiconductors.

What are metalliods.

300

These are the most reactive nonmetals.

What are the halogens?

300

This scientist's periodic table had holes for undiscovered elements and was rejected by many of his peers.

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev.

400

Which particle is larger in the atom/ion pair; S or S2-?

What is S2-?

400
Which is larger the atom or ion; Al or Al3+?
What is Al?
400

Most of the elements on the periodic table are which type of element?

What are metals?

400

Which family can be found in group 2 of the periodic table?

What are Alkaline Earth Metals?

400

This scientist noticed a pattern of properties occuring every 8 elements and called them octaves

Who is J.A.R. Newlands

500
How does the ionic radius of a metallic atom compare with its atomic radius?
What is the cation radius is smaller than the atom it was formed from?
500
Which element is more electronegative; Mg or Ne?
What is Mg?
500

Nonmetals are mostly this phase.

What are gasses

500

The most reactive group of metals

What are the Alkali Metals?

500

Which scientist discoverd triads, or groups of elements with similar properties?

Who is J. W. Dobereiner?