Question | Answer |
What has a positive charge? | Protons |
Whats has a negative charge? | Electrons |
What has a neutral charge? | Neutrons |
How do you get protons? | From the atomic number |
Does atomic number or mass number go on top when writing a isotope notation? | Mass number |
What are two ways you can write an isotope notation?(there is a third way) | Iron-55 or Fe-55 |
What is the average mass of an element's naturally occurring atom called? | Atomic Mass |
What is it called when you add the total number of protons and neutrons? You get... | The Mass Number |
Where are protons and neutrons found? | The Nucleus |
What do you have to subtract in order to get the number of neutrons? | Atomic number and Mass number. |
Where are the electrons found? | In the electron cloud. |
What is an isotope? | It is an atom of the same element with a different number of neutrons |
What happens to an atom if the number of protons is changed? | The elements change. |
Where are electrons found inside the electron cloud? | They are found in the energy levels. |
What do you need for isotopes to be the same element? | You need the same number of protons. |
What is determined by the number of protons in one atom of an element? | Its identity. |
What does the atomic number tell you? | The number of protons and electrons. |