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Apologia Chem M 3C
Atomic structure, part 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a quantum assumption | the assumption that a physical quantity (such as energy) is restricted to discrete values |
| When an electron moves from an orbit CLOSE to the nucleus to an orbit FAR from the nucleus, we say that the electron has been | excited. |
| When an electron moves from an orbit FAR from the nucleus to an orbit CLOSE to the nucleus, we say that it has | de-excited. |
| quantum mechanical model | the modern-day model of the atom in which electrons are found outside the nucleus in ORBITALS |
| The quantum mechanical model mainly differs from the Bohr model | in the type of orbits that the electrons can occupy. |
| We assume that electrons do not orbit in fixed circles but instead orbit in clouds we call | orbitals. |
| The orbital has a general shape and the electron can be ____________________ within that shape. | anywhere |
| S orbital | simplest type of orbital an electron can occupy; spherical w/ the nucleus at the center; only orbital type in the 1st energy level |
| An electron that occupies an s orbital can be anywhere inside the sphere but cannot venture _______________ of the sphere. | outside |
| The farther away from the nucleus the electron is, the __________ energy it must have. | more |
| The coefficient (number) next to the orbital letter indicates | the energy level of the atom. |
| The p orbital is | dumb-bell shaped. |
| The first p orbital is the | 2p orbital. |
| For every energy level, there are _____ different p orbitals, which are all shaped the same but oriented differently in space. | 3 |
| The third type of orbital is the | d orbital. |
| There are ____ different d orbitals for each energy level. | 5 |
| The lowest energy level d orbital is located on the _________ energy level. | 3rd |
| Within the same energy level, the different shaped orbitals require _______________ amounts of energy. | different |
| Each individual orbital can hold only _____ electrons. | 2 |
| All forms of matter try to stay in their | lowest possible energy state (also known as the ground state) |
| Matter is basically | lazy. |
| The ground state | is different for every substance on earth. |
| All of the chemical behavior of an atom is governed solely by the number of _________________ the atom has. | electrons |
| electron configuration | a notation that lists the number of electrons that occupy each orbital in an atom |
| The periodic table gets its weird shape because of | electron configurations. |
| We call the first two columns of the periodic table the s block because | the last electrons in the atoms of that block end up in an s orbital. |
| The s orbital block is only 2 columns wide because | the s orbital can have only 2 electrons in it. |
| Since there are 5 d orbitals and each can have 2 electrons, there are ______ elements in each row that have their last electrons in d orbitals. | 10 |
| The last orbital block of the periodic table is | the p orbital block. |
| The rows of the periodic table represent | the energy level that those electrons are in. |
| In the d orbital block, the row that the elements are on is one number ___________ than the energy level that the electrons are in. | higher |
| When we write an abbreviated electron configuration, we look for the nearest atom in column 8A that has a LOWER atomic number than the atom you are interested in. Then, you simply | add any extra electrons on top of that atom's configuration. |