Periodic Table and Trends Flashcards

1

What is the most reactive group on the periodic table?

Alkaline-Earth Metals
Noble Gases
Transition Metals
Alkali Metals

2

Who arranged the FIRST periodic table?

John Dalton
Henry Moseley
Marie Curie
Dmitri Mendeleev

3

What are the horizontal rows on the PT called?

groups
periods
columns
families

4

What is a characteristic of a nonmetal?

tend to gain electrons
malleable
ductile
tend to lose electrons

5

What is a characteristic of a metal?

brittle
tend to gain electrons
good conductor
bad conductor

6

What are the vertical columns called on the PT?

period
row
group
family

7

Copper, tin, zinc, iron, nickel, and gold fall under which group?

Transition Metals
Noble Gases
Alkali Earth Metals
Halogens

8

Who arranged the elements according to increasing atomic number?

Curie
Moseley
Dalton
Mendeleev

9

What is the atomic radius?

ability of atom in a compound to attract electrons
Generally increase moving across each period
when an atom gains or loses an electron
half the distance b/w the nuclei of 2 same atoms bonded

10

What bonds easily with other elements to make compounds?

reactive element
noble gases
un-reactive element
halogens

11

Which family is the least reactive?

Noble Gases
Halogens
Alkali Earth Metals
Transition Metals

12

Which of these tends to lose electrons the most?

metalloids
metals
nonmetals
transition metals

13

Which of these reacts VIOLENTLY with water and air?

halogens
valence electrons
boron family
alkali metals

14

What family is hydrogen a part of?

a class of its own
alkali
alkaline-earth
halogens

15

What are valence electrons?

electrons in the outer energy level of an atom
electrons in the first energy level of an atom
has a positive charge
a reactive metal

Periodic Table and Trends

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Periodic Table and Trends

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