Families of the Periodic Table Foldable
Make a family foldable. Answer the questions below on the foldable.
Family Foldable:
· Your name and block must be on the front of the foldable.
· The 12 families and the numbered answers to the following questions are to be included on your foldable.
· Use Appendix A of the textbook, the videos, and the internet to answer the following questions.
· Answer in either complete sentences or write the questions so that you can use your answers to study!
· The foldable should be neat and colorful.
Alkali Metals:
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. What state are most alkali metals?
3. List 3 properties.
4. How reactive are alkali metals?
5. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
6. For which SI base unit is cesium the atomic standard?
7. Why do vertebrates need sodium and potassium?
Alkaline Earth Metals:
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. What state are most alkaline earth metals?
3. How reactive are alkaline earth metals?
4. Describe the reactivity of the family.
5. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
6. Why is the word “earth” used in the name of this group?
Hydrogen
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. Is hydrogen part of any group?
3. How is hydrogen like a metal?
4. How is hydrogen like a nonmetal?
5. What are the 3 isotopes of hydrogen?
Boron Group
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. List 3 uses.
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. Which element is most like an alkali metal?
5. How could gallium possibly benefit the entertainment industry?
Carbon Group
1. How is Carbon different from the other members of the group?
2. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
3. What trend applies to all members of the group?
4. Define: mineral, ore, allotrope
5. Which element in this family is the 2nd most abundant element on Earth?
6. Lead might have been the first pure metal to be obtained. Why?
7. How many valence electrons does each have?
Nitrogen Group
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. List 3 uses.
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. Why/how is nitrogen important to living things?
5. What is phosphoric acid used for?
Oxygen Group
1. How many valence electrons does each have?
2. List 3 uses.
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. Describe the 2 allotropes of oxygen.
5. What is the link between sulfur and the food chain?
6. Which member of the oxygen group is the most common in Earth’s crust?
Halogens
1. How many valence electrons does each element have?
2. What properties do all share?
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. Describe the chemical behavior of the halogens.
5. How does your body use chlorine?
6. Why is fluorine the most reactive of all elements?
Noble Gases
1. Why were they the last to be discovered?
2. Why are they rarely reactive?
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. List 2 uses of halogens.
5. Which noble gas can be dangerous to inhale?
6. How many valence electrons do noble gases have?
Transition Metals:
1. What property do most share?
2. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
3. What determines a transition metal’s hardness and boiling and melting points?
4. What determines the charges formed by the ions of transition metals?
5. What is ferromagnetism?
6. Which transition metals can be used to make magnets?
Lanthanides:
1. Which period are the lanthanides?
2. List 3 properties.
3. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
4. Which 4 lanthanide elements have names based on the place where they were first mined?
5. List 3 uses for elements from the lanthanide group.
Actinides:
1. Which period are the Actinides?
2. How many exist in nature?
3. What do all of the actinides have in common?
4. List the name and symbols for all elements in the family.
5. What is meant when an element is classified as a transuranium element?
6. How are transuranium elements created?
· *There will be a foldable/family test on 3/28/16.
· You will take this test using the foldable to help you answer the questions.
· If you don’t do the foldable or do not bring it to school when it is due you will still take the test at the scheduled time, just without the help.