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Periodic Table Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 6hrs 45mins

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1.

The element phosphorus is located to the right of the element magnesium along the same period in the periodic table.

Which best describes the relationship of the elements?

a)

Magnesium has a larger atomic number.

b)

Phosphorus has a larger atomic mass.

c)

Magnesium is in the same category as phosphorus.

d)

Phosphorus has similar chemical properties as magnesium.

2.

Elements in group 2 are all called alkaline earth metals. What is most similar about the alkaline earth metals?

a)

how many protons and neutrons they have

b)

which chemical properties they have

c)

how many total electrons they have

d)

which period they are most often found in

3.

Based on the information in the table, which two elements are most likely in the same group, and why?

a)

bismuth and thallium, because their atomic masses are very similar

b)

nitrogen and oxygen, because they were both first isolated in the same year

c)

sodium and thallium, because their names both end in the same suffix: -ium

d)

bismuth and nitrogen, because they have the same number of valence electrons

4.

Based on the information in the table, which elements are most likely in the same periods of the periodic table?

a)

Boron and carbon are likely together in one period because they have very close atomic masses.

b)

Aluminum, boron, and carbon are likely together in one period because they were first isolated in the first half of the 1800s.

c)

Boron and carbon are likely together in one period because they each end in “-on."

d)

Aluminum, boron, and gallium are likely together in one group because they have the same number of valence electrons.

5.

While looking at calcium (Ca) on the periodic table, a student needs to find an element with a greater atomic mass in the same period. Where should the student look?

a)

directly up

b)

directly down

c)

directly to the right

d)

directly to the left

6.

This is how zirconium appears in the periodic table.

How many electrons are in an atom of zirconium?

a)

91

b)

51

c)

40

d)

131

7.

This is how krypton appears in the periodic table.

How many protons are in an atom of krypton?

a)

84

b)

36

c)

48

d)

120

8.

This is how fluorine appears in the periodic table.

Which is one piece of information that "9” gives about an atom of fluorine?

a)

the atomic number

b)

the number of neutrons

c)

the atomic mass

d)

the mass of neutrons

9.

This is how osmium appears in the periodic table.


How many neutrons, on average, are in an atom of osmium?

a)

76

b)

114

c)

190

d)

266

10.

Which two chemists arranged the elements by atomic mass?

a)

Lavoisier & Dobereiner

b)

Dobereiner & Mendeleev

c)

Newlands & Mendeleev

d)

Lavoisier & Newlands

11.

Who arranged the elements by atomic number and accounted for variations between isotopes?

a)

Lavoisier

b)

Mendeleev

c)

Moseley

d)

Newlands

12.

What are 1A, 3B, and 7A examples of on the periodic table?

a)

groups

b)

periods

c)

rows

d)

numbers

13.

What is the average mass of all isotopes of an element?

a)

atomic mass

b)

atomic number

c)

periodic table

d)

group

14.

What is a horizontal row of elements on the periodic table?

a)

group

b)

period

15.

What is a vertical column of elements in the periodic table?

a)

group

b)

period

16.

As you move from left to right, the atomic number of each element increases by ....

a)

one

b)

two

c)

three

d)

four

17.

What are the three general categories of the elements? (CHOOSE ALL THREE)

a)

metals

b)

gases

c)

liquids

d)

nonmetals

e)

metalloids

18.

Which category of elements is usually shiny and a good conductor of heat and electricity?

a)

Metals

b)

Metalloids

c)

Nonmetals

19.

The elements in group 17 of the periodic table are all called halogens. All halogens have the same:

a)

atomic mass

b)

atomic number

c)

number of valence electrons

d)

number of possible isotopes

20.

Who is known as the "father of modern chemistry” because he first organized all known elements into four different groups?

a)

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Henry Moseley

21.

Tell me the atomic number of this element:

(a)  

22.

Tell me the atomic mass of this element:

(a)  

23.

Tell me the chemical symbol of this element:

(a)