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Week 10 Vocabulary
Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids
Question | Answer |
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What is an element that is generally shiny, is easily pulled into thin wires, or hammered into thin sheets, AND is a GOOD conductor of electrical and thermal energy? | metals |
What is an element that has physical and chemical properties of both metals and nonmetals? | metalloids |
What is an element with no metallic properties? Examples are Carbon, Phosphorus, Chlorine, & Helium | nonmetals |
What is an element in Group 17 on the Periodic Table? The answer is from the Greek word that means "salt" and -gen that means "to produce" | Halogen element |
What is an element in Group 18 on the Periodic Table that only reacts with other elements under certain lab conditions? These are known as free elements and they do not naturally form compounds | Noble Gas |
What is a substance that conducts electricity at high temperatures but NOT at low temperatures? | semiconductor |
What is an element in Group 1 on the Periodic Table? | alkali metal |
What is an element in Group 2 on the Periodic Table? | alkaline metal |
What is an element in Groups 3-12 on the Periodic Table? | transition metal |
Tin, Zinc, Titanium, and silver are examples of the metals found in groups 3-12. What type of metals are these? | transition metals |
This group of metals are highly reactive and are found in Group 2 of the Periodic Table. Beryllium and Calcium belong to this Group. What metals are these? | alkaline metals |
Lithium, Sodium, and Potassium are in Group 1. What type of metals are found in this group? | alkali metals |
Most metalloids are part of this group of conductors that conduct electricity at high temperatures but not at low temperatures? What is the term for this type of conductor? | semiconductor |
Helium and Neon belong to this group of nonmetals on the very last group of the Periodic Table (Group 18). What are these nonmetals called? The are NOT reactive elements. | Noble Gases |
What group on the Periodic Table are brittle? | nonmetals |
What group on the Periodic Table are good conductors of heat and electricity? | metals |
What group on the Periodic Table are malleable? | metals |
What group is found on the zigzag line of the Periodic Table? They are between metals and nonmetals | metalloids |