Metals, Nonmetals and Metaloids

You found a piece of material and you test it to determine what it is. You find it can sort of conduct electricity, its shiny, and brittle. What is it?

• Metal

• Nonmetal

• Metalloid

Pick all the properties that apply to metals...

• Shiny

• Malleable

• Brittle

• Conductor

You place an unknown material into an open circuit and it completes. How would you most likely classify this unknown material?

• Metal

• Nonmetal

• Metalloid

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Which of these grouping of elements could have the characteristic of luster (shiny)?

• Metal

• Nonmetal

• metalloids

• Both metals and metalloids

Which of these is a property of metals?

• It's malleable
• It can't conduct electricity
• They are used in food
• It's very brittle

Malleability is ___________

• the way light is reflected off a surface.

• how well a piece of matter conducts electricity.

• the capability of being drawn out into thin wires or threads.

• the capability of being hammered out thin sheet.

Luster is ___________

• A. the way light reflects off a surface.

• A. how well a piece of matter conducts electricity.

• A. the capability of being drawn out into thin wires or threads.

• A. the capability of being hammered out thin.

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Silicon is a semiconductor and has properties of both metals and nonmetals. What type of element is Silicon?

• Metal

• Nonmetal

• Metalloid

• Pretty

Which elements are found on the left to middle of The Periodic Table?

• Metals

• Nonmetals

• Metalloids

• Shinys!

Some characteristics of a metal are that it is malleable and ductile.

• TRUE

• FALSE