Unit 3 - Periodic Table Test Review

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What do elements in the same group on the Periodic Table typically share?

Back

Similar chemical properties.

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This type of element is dull, brittle solids and gases, insulators, poor conductors of heat and electricity, as well as having low melting points.

Back

Nonmetals.

Front

Name this element: Na.

Back

Sodium.

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What do we call the electrons that are involved in chemical reactions and are in the outermost shell?

Back

Valence Electrons.

Front

Elements in the same column of the periodic table always have the same # of _______ as one another.

Back

Valence Electrons.

Front

What is the atomic number of Sodium?

Back

11.

Front

What are the three main categories of elements on the Periodic Table?

Back

Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids.

Front

What is the main characteristic of metals?

Back

They are good conductors of heat and electricity.

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What is the main characteristic of nonmetals?

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They are poor conductors of heat and electricity.

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What are metalloids?

Back

Elements that have properties of both metals and nonmetals.