Identifying Elements on the Periodic Table

Most of the elements on the periodic table are classified as _____.

• Metals
• Nonmetals
• Metalloids
• Periods

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Metals are found on the ______________ side of the periodic table.

• nonmetals

• left

• right

• metals

What do you call the horizontal row of elements in a periodic table of elements?

• Group

• Family

• Period

• Column

How many groups or families and periods does a Periodical Table have?

• There are 17 groups or families and 7 periods.

• There are 18 groups or families and 7 periods.

• There are 7 groups or families and 18 periods.

• There are 18 groups or families and 6 periods

Which of the following are the three major groups of elements in the periodic table?

• Metals, non-metals, metalloids

• Metals, conductors, metalloids

• Metals, conductors, insulators

• Non-metals, conductors, insulators

What are Group 1 elements known as?

• Alkali metals

• Transition elements

• Alkaline earth metals

• Inner transition elements

The following elements belong to the same group EXCEPT?

• Argon

• Calcium

• Helium

• Krypton

Which group of the periodic table is Neon a part of?

answer choices

• alkali metals

• alkaline earth metals

• halogens

• noble gases

Which is a halogen?

• Helium

• Chlorine

• Oxygen

• Neptune

I am a nonmetal

I am in period 2

I am in group 16

• Ba

• Si

• O

• S