Periodic Table of the Elements

A property that describes a material breaking or shatters easily

• gold

• copper

• brittle

• malleable

This does not allow electricity or heat to flow through it easily

• dull

• elements

• insulator

• conductor

When a material allows electricity or heat to flow easily through it, it is said to be this

• semiconductor

• metals

• insulator

• conductor

The way a metal's surface reflects light

• sun

• dull

• gold

• luster

Thing you can observe and use to describe matter

• metals

• properties

• boron

• mercury

A metal that is not solid at room temperature

• copper

• gold

• mercury

• boron

The way most metals can be stretched into wires

• ductile

• metalloids

• brittle

• conductor

The way a metal can be hammered or rolled into thin sheets

• insulator

• ductile

• luster

• malleable

This group of elements has properties that are opposite those of metals

• mercury

• nonmetals

• metals

• metalloids

There are 88 of these on the periodic table that are classified as metals

• nonmetals

• metals

• properties

• elements