Ch 2: Organization of the Periodic Table

Question 1

What are the periods of the periodic table?

Answer 1

The horizontal rows

Question 2

What are the groups of the periodic table?

Answer 2

The vertical columns

Question 3

What are the three main classifications of the elements?

Answer 3

Metal, Metalloid, and Nonmetal

Question 4

What are the subcategories of the nonmetals?

Answer 4

Reactive nonmetals and noble gases

Question 5

What are the subcategories of metals?

Answer 5

Short answer:
Any other subcategory that is not nonreactive nonmetals, nobles gases, or metalloids

Full answer:
- Alkali metals
- Alkaline earth metals
- Lanthanoids
- Actinoids
- Transition metals
- Post transition metals

Question 6

Which part of the periodic table are metals located?

Answer 6

All elements on the left side of the metalloid line, excluding Hydrogen

Question 7

Which part of the periodic table are nonmetals located?

Answer 7

All elements on the right side of the metalloid line, including Hydrogen

Question 8

Which elements are metalloids?

Answer 8

• Boron (B)
• Silicon (Si)
• Germanium (Ge)
• Arsenic (As)
• Antimony (Sb)
• Tellurium (Te)
• Polonoim (Po)
• Astatine (At)

Question 9

What are diatomic elements?

Answer 9

Elements that exist with itself as pairs

Example
X₂

Question 10

What are polyatomic elements?

Answer 10

Elements that exists with itself as a group of 3 or more

Example
X₄

Question 11

Which elements are diatomic?

Answer 11

• Oxygen (O₂)
• Hydrogen (H₂)
• Nitrogen (N₂)
• Fluorine (F₂)
• Chlorine (Cl₂)
• Bromine (Br₂)
• Iodine (I₂)

Question 12

Which elements are polyatomic?

Answer 12

• Phosphorus (P₄)
• Sulfur (S₈)

Question 13

Which groups are the representative elements?

Answer 13

Groups 1 and 2, and 13 - 18

Question 14

Which groups are the transitional elements?

Answer 14

Groups 3 - 12