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Periodic Table Review

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Who Developed the periodic table fo the elements?   Dmitri Mendeleev  
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how is the periodic table organized?   By increasing atomic number  
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What name is given to a row in the periodic table?   period  
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What name is given to a column in the periodic table?   Family or group  
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What is true of all elements in the same family?   they have the same number of electrons in their outer energy level (orbital)  
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What is true of all elements in the same period?   they have the same number of energy levels (orbitals)  
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How many periods are there in the periodic table?   7  
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Why are there 2 rows separated from the rest of the table?   to make it easier to fit on book pages/poster  
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Elements can be divided into what three classes?   metals, non-metals, metalloids  
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Most of the elements belong to which class of elements, metals, non-metals, or metalloids?   metals  
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As you move from left to right across a period the elements become ______ metallic.   less  
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What does malleable mean?   able to be flattened into a thin sheet  
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What does ductile mean?   Able to be pulled into a thin wire  
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Which class of elements are dull, poor conductors, and not malleable?   non-metals  
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Which class of elements shares some metal and some non-metal characteristics   metalloids  
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When writing an element symbol, the first letter is always ________ _________   upper case  
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Pb is lead and Sn is tin. Why don't the symbols match the names for these elements?   because their symbol is based on the Greek or Latin name for the element  
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In what general area are the non-metals found on the periodic table?   the right side of the table  
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This family of elements all have one electron in thier outer level and contains the most reactive metals and   alkali metals  
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This family of elelemts contains reactive metals with 2 electrons in thier outer level   alkali earth metals  
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This family contains unreactive non-metals. They are all gases found in small quantities in the atmosphere   noble gases  
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This family contains the most reactive non-metals, they all have 7 electrons in their outer level   halogens  
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