Physical Properties of Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids

Which element is a metalloid?

• Titanium

• Selenium

• Potassium

• Polonium

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

A student is given a sample of an unknown substance. He is asked to determine if it is classified as a metal, a metalloid, or a nonmetal. He discovered that the unknown element conducted some heat and electricity, had a shiny luster, and broke easily. This element is most likely a 

• metal

• nonmetal

• metalloid

• cannot be determined

Metalloids are

• brittle and good conductors of heat

• malleable

• dull and poor conductors of heat

• has a malleable luster and poor conductor of heat

Metals are ​ (a)   conductors of heat and electricity. Metals can reach ​ (b)   melting and boiling points. Metals are​ (c)   and ​ (d)   .

• good

• poor

• high

• low

• malleable

• non malleable

• shiny

• dull

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Metals are...

• dull, brittle, insulators.

• shiny or dull, brittle, semiconductor.

• shiny, malleable, conductors.

• shiny, dull, insulator.

Metals are: good conductors of:

• low melting

• poor conductors

• heat and electricity

• dull

Match the correct elements to its physical properties

• Solids, ductile, malleable

• Metalloids

• Metal/shiny

• Luster

• solids, liquid, gas, dull, insulator

• Non Metals

• mix and are semiconductors

• Metals

• Non Metal/e

• Brittle

Which of the following can conduct heat and electricity and can be bent and easily shaped?

• Chlorine (Cl)

• Mercury (Hg)

• Boron (B)

• Copper (Cu)

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