Element Patterns And Combining Atoms

Question 0

In the periodic table what are the horizontal rows called?

Answer 0

Periods

Question 1

What does the periodic table list?

Answer 1

All known elements by increasing proton number

Question 2

In the periodic table what are the vertical columns called?

Answer 2

Groups

Question 3

What do the groups tell you?

Answer 3

How many electrons the atom has in it’s outer shell

Question 4

What is a compound?

Answer 4

Two or more elements chemically bonded with each other and cannot be separated like a mixture

Question 5

What is an ionic bond?

Answer 5

When a metal bonds with a non metal, the metal atom gives one or more electrons to the non metal

Question 6

What is a covalent bond?

Answer 6

The outer most shells of their atoms overlap and they share the electrons

Question 7

What is group 0 or 8 called?

Answer 7

The noble gasses

Question 8

What does this mean? O=O

Answer 8

Covalent double bond of oxygen

Question 9

What does this mean? F-F

Answer 9

A single bond of Florine

Question 10

How does a sodium atom become positively charged

Answer 10

It looses an outer electron