Formative assessment 2 - Metals

What is not a property of a metal?

• Ductile

• Sonorous

• Malleable

• Low melting point

All of the following would classify an element as a metal except?

• Dull
• Luster
• Malleable
• Hard

Iron is a good conductor, malleable and magnetic. What type of element is Iron? 

• Metal
• Nonmetal
• Metalloid
• Pretty

Which of the following is a property of a non-metal?

• Conducts electricity and heats well
• Can be hammered into thin sheets
• Is brittle and breaks easily
• Has a shiny, metallic luster

How do metals differ from nonmetals?

• metals are shiny, nonmetals are dull
• metals are good insulators, nonmetals are good conductors
• metals are powdery
• nonmetals are shiny

At room temperature metals are ____________.

• plasma
• gases
• liquid
• solid

Metals are sonorous in nature. What is sonorous?

• Making into powder

• Drawn into wires

• Make sound on beating

• None of these

What does ductile mean?

• electricity flows easily
• quacks like a duck
• can be drawn into a wire
• able to bend

Which of the following is a metal?

• chlorine
• sodium
• Oxygen

John was observing the physical properties of elements in order to classify them as either a metal, nonmetal, or metalloid. The first element was dull, brittle, and did not conduct heat. What would its classification be? 

• metal 
• nonmetal 
• metalloid