Introduction To The Periodic Table

Question 1

What is the periodic table?

Answer 1

It is a table or chart that displays information all about the known elements

Question 2

What is an element?

Answer 2

A pure substance that cannot be broken into something simpler and is always on the periodic table

Question 3

Can elements appear off of the periodic table?

Answer 3

No, they cannot

Question 4

What is an element symbol?

Answer 4

An abbreviation for an element and some abbreviations are based on the Latin names

Question 5

Are the symbols the same in different language countries

Answer 5

Yes, it’s the same all over the world, no matter the language

Question 6

What are the 3 rules to writing element symbols?

Answer 6

1. Symbols always begin with a capital
2. If there is a 2nd or 3rd letter, lowercase
3. There are no periods at the end, unless it comes at the end of a sentence

Question 7

What states of matter are elements found?
(Room temperature)

Answer 7

Elements are either found in solids, liquids, or gases

Question 8

Whats the most common state of matter an element is formed in?

Answer 8

Solid

Question 9

What are compounds

Answer 9

A compound is a pue substance made of 2 or more elements

Ex. H2O

Question 10

Who made the peridotic table and in what year

Answer 10

Dmitri Mendeleev (1869)

Question 11

How are the elements of the periodic table sorted?

Answer 11

They are sorted by there atomic mass

Question 12

What is atomic mass?

Answer 12

The mass of one atom of the element

Question 13

What are the empty spaces in the periodic table?

Answer 13

They are elements that haven’t been discovered yet

Question 14

What are the different ways that the periodic table is organized?

Answer 14

1. Metals, non metals and metalloids
2. 7 rows which are called periods
3. 18 columns that are called groups
4. Ordered by atomic number

Question 15

What is a metal?

Answer 15

An element that is lustrous, malleable, ductile, and conducts heat and electricity.

Question 16

Where are metals found in the periodic table?

Answer 16

The left of the staircase line.

Question 17

What are non metals?

Answer 17

Usually a gas or dull powdery solid that is not malleable or ductile and does not conduct heat or electricity

Question 18

Where are non metals found on the periodic table?

Answer 18

Found on the right of the staircase line

Question 19

What are metalloids

Answer 19

An element that has properties of a metal and non metals

Question 20

Where are metalloids found on the perdiotic table?

Answer 20

Along the staircase

Question 21

What are some useful metals in the real world

Answer 21

1. Copper : used in electrical circuits
2. Gold and silver : used in jewelry and coins

Question 22

What are some useful non metals

Answer 22

1. Argon gas : to seperate glass from glass
2. Helium : to fill up balloons

Question 23

What are periods?

Answer 23

The 7 horizontal rows on the periodic table

Question 24

What are groups/chemical family?

Answer 24

The 18 vertical columns on the periodic table

Question 25

What are the different names for each group?

Answer 25

1.alkali metals
2. Alkaline metals
3. Transition metals
4. Halogens
5. Noble gases

Question 26

What are alkali metals?

Answer 26

1. The first column from the left that are silvery, shiny and soft but highly reactive
2. Relatively low density that can float on water

Question 27

What are alkaline metals

Answer 27

1. Earth metals found in the second column from the left
2. Are shiny and silvery but are not as soft or reactive as alkali metals

Question 28

What are Halogens?

Answer 28

1. Second last column from the right