Ionic or Covalent Bonding

In covalent bonding, valence electrons are ______.

• shared

• transferred

• destroyed

Why do all bonds form?

• filling the outermost energy level to be stable

• to make all atoms the same

• to make other atoms unstable

• to make all atoms different

Nitrogen and Oxygen will make a ____________ bond

• ionic

• covalent

• metallic

Which of these element pairs would bond covalently?

• Fr and K

• Sc and O

• F and Cl

• He and Pt

Ionic compounds are formed when one or more valence electrons are transferred from _____

• a nonmetal atom to a metal atom

• a nonmetal atom to a nonmetal atom

• a metal atom to a nonmetal atom

• a metal atom to a metal atom

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Identify the following compound as ionic or covalent: Ca(OH)₂

• ionic

• covalent

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-3

In a(n) ________ electrons are transferred from one atom to another

• ionic compound

• covalent compound

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

What two types of atoms make a covalent bond?

• 2 non-metals

• 1 metal and 1 non-metal

• 2 metals

Identify the following compound as ionic or covalent: SO₂

• ionic

• covalent

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

A covalent compound made of one sulfur and two oxygen atoms would be named

• sulfur dioxide.

• sulfur oxide.

• disulfur oxide.

• sulfide oxygen.