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Chemical Bonding

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of bond is the joining of atoms to form new substances?

a)

Metallic Bond

b)

Chemical Bond

c)

Covalent Bond

d)

Ionic Bond

2.

What is formed when electrons are shared, gained, or lost?

a)

Overlapping atoms

b)

Valence electrons

c)

Energy levels

d)

Chemical bonds

3.

Neutrons in an atom are organized into energy levels.

a)

False

b)

True

4.

The ______ ______ of an element is the number of electrons in that element.

a)

energy levels

b)

chemical bonds

c)

atomic number

d)

valence electrons

5.

How many electrons can the first energy level hold?

a)

3

b)

2

c)

8

d)

None

6.

How many electrons can the second energy level?

a)

8

b)

6

c)

2

d)

10

7.

The electrons in an atom's outermost energy level, _______ _________, forms bonds between most atoms.

a)

chemical bonds

b)

proton and neutrons

c)

valence electrons

d)

atomic number

8.

How many valence electrons does oxygen have?

(hint: oxygen's atomic number is 8)

a)

6

b)

1

c)

8

d)

2

9.

Chlorine has 17 electrons. How many valence electrons does it have?

a)

None

b)

6

c)

2

d)

7

10.

When an atom loses an electron it has what type of charge?

a)

Negative

b)

Positive

c)

Neutral

d)

None

11.

When an atom gains an electron it has what type of charge?

a)

Positive

b)

Neutral

c)

None

d)

Negative

12.

The electron number equals what else in the atom?

a)

Neutron number

b)

Valence electron number

c)

Proton number

d)

No relation

13.

In ionic bonds, the number of electrons lost by _____ equals the number gained by the ________ atoms.

a)

nonmetal; nonmetal

b)

metal; metal

c)

metal; nonmetal

d)

positive; negative

14.

Ions that bond have charges. The compound is _______ because the charges cancel each other out.

a)

metallic

b)

Negative

c)

Positive

d)

Neutral

15.

Brittleness, high melting point, and high boiling point are properties of ionic compounds

a)

True

b)

False

16.

When atoms share one or more pairs of electrons, what forms?

a)

Metallic bond

b)

Ionic bond

c)

Crystal lattice

d)

Covalent bond

17.

A high melting point, a high boiling point, and brittleness only in the solid state are properties of covalent bonds.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Covalent bonds usually form between atoms of what?

a)

metals and nonmetals

b)

nonmetals and nonmetals

c)

metals and metals

d)

None of the above

19.

What type of chemical bonds exists in water molecule?

a)

Plain

b)

Covalent bond

c)

Metallic bond

d)

Ionic bond

20.

Diatomic molecules are molecules made up of two or more atoms of different elements.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

When speaking about diatomic molecules, di- mean...

a)

multiple

b)

too

c)

two

d)

three

22.

What type of atoms sharing with 4 electrons in the chemical reaction?

a)

Hydrogen

b)

Beryllium

c)

Boron

d)

Carbon

23.

What type of bond is formed by the attraction between positively charged metal ions and the electrons?

a)

Positive Bond

b)

Ionic Bond

c)

Covalent Bond

d)

Metallic Bond

24.

What happens to the outermost energy level when metal atoms bond and they're very close to each other?

a)

They overlap

b)

It allows the electrons to move around freely

c)

They become positive

d)

Both overlap and move around closely

25.

Ductility is...

a)

the ability to hammer into sheets

b)

the ability to draw wires

26.

Malleability is...

a)

the ability to hammer into sheets

b)

the ability to be drawn into wires

27.

What describes a metal ability to be reshaped?

a)

ductility and mirroring

b)

malleability and bending

c)

deductibility and bending

d)

ductility and malleability

28.

An atom that gains or loses an electron becomes

a)

an isotope

b)

a new element

c)

an ion

d)

a molecule

29.

Sodium chloride is a .... compound

a)

Ionic

b)

Covalent

30.

In carbon dioxide, carbon and oxygen are bonded by ... bonding

a)

Ionic

b)

Covalent

31.

How does an O atom become an O2- ion?

a)

loses 2 electrons

b)

gains 2 electrons

32.

Which of the following groups contains the most reactive elements?

a)

the noble gases

b)

the alkali metals

c)

the alkaline earth metals

d)

the carbon family

33.

Because an atom is neutral, the number of

a)

electrons equals the number of neutrons 

b)

isotopes equals the number of electrons

c)

electrons equals the number of protons

d)

protons equals the number of neutrons

34.

In the periodic table, elements are arranged in order of 

a)

decreasing atomic number

b)

increasing atomic number

c)

increasing number of energy levels

d)

decreasing number of isotopes 

35.

How many  protons would an element with the atomic number of 18 have in its nucleus? 

a)

11

b)

9

c)

16

d)

18