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Periodic Trends

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Iron is a good conductor, malleable and magnetic. What type of element is Iron? 
a)
Metal
b)
Nonmetal
c)
Metalloid
d)
Pretty
2.
Silicon is a semiconductor and has properties of both metals and nonmetals. What type of element is Silicon? 
a)
Metal
b)
Nonmetal
c)
Metalloid
d)
Pretty
3.
Which elements are found on the left to middle of The Periodic Table? 
a)
Metals
b)
Nonmetals
c)
Metalloids
d)
Candles
4.
Which elements are found on the right side of The Periodic Table?
a)
Metals
b)
Nonmetals
c)
Metalloids
d)
Water
5.
All of these properties describe metals except...
a)
malleable
b)
conductors
c)
brittle 
d)
shiny
6.
Which element is a metalloid?
a)
Titanium
b)
Selenium
c)
Potassium
d)
Polonium
7.
How would this element be classified?
a)
Metal
b)
Nonmetal
c)
Metalloid
d)
Metamorphic
8.

The vertical (up and down) columns in the Periodic Table are called

a)

groups

b)

towers

c)

periods

d)

atomic numbers

9.
What does the atomic mass tell you? 
a)
Basically,the number of electrons and protons
b)
The number of neutrons
c)
Basically, the number of protons and neutrons
d)
The number of protons.
10.

The horizontal (side to side) rows in the Periodic Table are called

a)

groups

b)

families

c)

periods

d)

atomic numbers

11.

Which Russian chemist is commonly considered to be the developer of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?

a)

Nikolay Basov

b)

Pavel Cherenkov

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Dmitri Mendeleev

12.

Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons are found in energy levels that that orbit the nucleus of an atmo?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

James Watson

d)

Nikola Tesla

13.

Use your colored periodic table. Silicon is classified as....

a)

Metal

b)

Nonmetal

c)

Metalloid

14.

Use your colored periodic table. Hydrogen is classified as....

a)

Metal

b)

Nonmetal

c)

Metalloid