TRIVIA DAY Think of a team name for your team

Round One 1.What can you predict about an element based on its location in the Periodic Table? 2. What is atomic number? Does every element have a different atomic number? 3. Where are the protons in an atom? 4.Where are the neutrons in an atom? 5. Where are the electrons in an atom?

Round One 1.Characteristics or properties 2.Number of protons in the nucleus 3.Nucleus 4.Nucleus 5.Orbitals, shells, orbiting outside the nucleus

Round 2 6.Using the figure to the right, what is the atomic number of oxygen? 7. What is oxygen’s atomic mass? 8. How many protons does oxygen have in its nucleus? 9.The atomic number of an element is based on what? 10.Describe the charge of: -protons -neutrons -electrons

Round Number of protons in the nucleus 10. –protons - positive -neutrons – no charge, neutral -electrons - negative

Round What are columns in the periodic table called? 12. What is true about elements in the same group? 13. What are the rows in the periodic table called? 14. What pattern do you notice across the periods in the table? 15. Which side of the periodic table is the most reactive?

Round Groups 12. Similar Properties, same number of valence electrons 13.Periods 14. atomic numbers and masses increase 15. Left

Round Where on the table would the elements have the most mass? 17. Are metals usually good conductors of electricity or poor conductors of electricity? 18. Are nonmetals usually good conductors of electricity or poor conductors of electricity? 19. Where are metals located on the periodic table? 20. Where are nonmetals located on the periodic table?

Round 4 16.bottom 17. Metals are good conductors 18. Nonmetals are poor conductors 19. To the left of the zig-zag line 20. To the right of the zig zag line

Round Where are metalloids located on the periodic table? 22. Look at the periodic table. What two elements in the same group as carbon are metalloids? 23. Are there more metals, metalloids, or nonmetals in the periodic table? 24. What does it mean that elements have “characteristic properties”? 25. What is special about the noble gases?

Round On or bordering the zig zag line 22. Silicon, germanium 23. Metals 24.Elements can be identified by their properties 25. They have a full valence shell so they do not generally bond with other elements

Round What elements does H 2 O contain? 27. Which is a molecule of an element: H 2 O, NaCl, or O What is a chemical symbol? What is the symbol for carbon? 29.What is carbon’s atomic number? What is carbon’s atomic mass? 30.Which kind of elements are likely to be good conductors and malleable?

Round Hydrogen and oxygen 27. O An abbreviation for the symbol, how we identify the elements. C Metals

Round What period do the following elements belong in on the periodic table? 32. What group/family do the following elements belong in on the periodic table? 33. Radon is classified on the periodic table as a ____ 34. What is NaCl the chemical formula for? 35. What is H2O the chemical formula for? 36. How do you know that Fluorine and Chlorine have similar chemical properties?

31. Period Group/Family non-metal 34. Salt 35. Water 36. They are in the same group/family