The Atom
The smallest piece of an element that still has the properties of that element.
What is the atom?
The particle that is equal to the atomic number of an atom.
What is the proton?
The name of group 18, the unreactive nonmetals on the periodic table.
What are the noble gases?
The amount of electrons most atoms want in order to become stable.
What is 8?
The name of the female robot in Wall-e.
What is Eve?
The positively charged particle in an atom that gives it its identity.
What is the proton?
The two subatomic particles that you add up to get the mass of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
The name of the highly reactive nonmetals in group 17.
What are the Halogens?
The type of bond where one atom loses electrons and another atom gains electrons.
What is ionic?
The historical event where american colonists stormed a boat and threw tea overboard.
What is the Boston tea party?
The negatively charged particle that hangs out around the outside of the atom.
The one or two letters that are used to represent an element on the periodic table.
What is the element or chemical symbol?
The name of the elements in groups 3-12 on the periodic table, which includes things like iron and gold.
What are the transition metals?
The type of bond where multiple atoms share their electrons.
What is covalent?
The MLB player who holds the records for most home runs* and most MVPs.
Who is Barry Bonds?
The neutrally charged particle that stays in the center of the atom with the proton.
What are the neutrons?
What the horizontal rows on the periodic table are called.
What are periods?
The name of the group of highly reactive metals in column one of the periodic table.
What are the alkali metals?
The type of element that loses electrons in an ionic bond.
What is a metal?
The narrating character in the book the outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
The center of an atom where both the neutrons and protons are located.
What is the nucleus?
The number of groups on the periodic table.
What is 18?
The name of the elements on the stair step of the periodic table in groups 13-17.
What are the metalloids?
The number of covalent bonds a Carbon atom can form.
The name of the dragon in the Hobbit.
What is Smaug?