Homework: Becoming Familiar with Atoms of the Periodic Table

Last updated about 1 year ago

10 questions

Homework: Becoming Familiar with Atoms of the Periodic Table

Last updated about 1 year ago

10 questions

A) Who is credited for the creation of the periodic table? __________

B) How many elements did Dmitri predict accurately? __________

C) Where and when was Dmitri born? __________

D) When he was a young, what challenges did Mendeleev's family face? __________

E) What prompted Mendeleev to begin to make his own vision of the periodic table? __________

F) Why did Dmitri leave gaps in the periodic table? __________

G) How was he able to predict the properties of elements? __________

H) Which element's properties were correctly predicted 70 years before its discover? __________

Label all of the parts of this atom

Other Answer Choices:

electron

electron cloud

nucleus

neutron

proton

Look at the following diagrams. Use the information to identify the following atoms. 

Empty dots = protons
black dots = neutrons
black dots on the outer lines = electrons

Other Answer Choices:

Neon (Ne)

Aluminum Al

Oxygen (O)

Look at the following diagrams. Use the information to identify the following atoms. 

Empty dots = protons
black dots = neutrons
black dots on the outer lines = electrons

Other Answer Choices:

hydrogen (H)

neon (Ne)

sulfur (S)

A) Why was there confusion on the official names of elements before 1919? __________

B) Who decides the official naming rules for elements? __________

C) What are the basic rules for naming elements?__________

D) What were the "Transfermium wars"? __________ How was the conflict resolved? __________

Complete the following grid based on elements you've read about in the text

Other Answer Choices:

americium, californium, berkelium, polonium, germanium, nihonium, scandium, moscovium, tenessine, strontium, copper, francium, galium, ytterbium, erbium, terbium, yttrium

helium, neptunium, plutonium, mercury, uranium, palladium

tantalum, niobium, thorium, titanium, vanadium

molybdenum, platinum, zirconium, nickel, cobalt

curium, einsteinium, mendelevium, bohrium, fermium, roentgenium, rutherfordium, oganesson, seaborgium

A) The Latin name for Russia is Ruthenia. Which element do you think was named for Russia? ______________ 
B) Lutetia is the latin word for Paris. Which element do you think was named in honor of Paris?_____________ 
C) Holmia is the Latin word for the Swedish city of stockholm. Which element is named for this city? ____________ 
D) Which element is named for Alfred Nobel, the scientists who established the Nobel Prizes? _____________ 
E) Lise Meitner was and Austrian-Swedish physicist who worked on radioactivity & nuclear physics & helped to lead a group of scientists who first discovered nuclear fission of urnaium. Which element was named after her?  _______________ 
F) Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish scientist and astronomer who proposed that the Earth and other plants circle the Sun. Which element is named in honor of Copernicus? ________________ 
G) Selene is the Greek word for moon. Which element was named for the moon? _____________ 
H) Tellus is the Latin word for Earth. Which element was named for Earth.  ______________ 
I) Which element comes from the German word zinkle? _________ 
J) Neos didymos is the Greek phrase for new twin. Which element got its name this way? ______________ 
K) Prometheus is a character that stole fire from the gods in Greek mythology. Which element is named for Prometheus? _______________ 
L) The greek word dysprositos means "difficult to get". Which element was named because it was extremely difficult to isolate? _______________ 
M) The latin word carbo means coal or charcoal. Which element would you predict makes up coal or charcoal? ___________ 

Other Answer Choices:

selenium

tellurium

ruthenium

lutetium

zinc

carbon

nobelium

copernicium

meiternium

promethium

dysprosium

holmium

neodymium

Homework: Becoming Familiar with Atoms of the Periodic Table

Homework: Becoming Familiar with Atoms of the Periodic Table

Match the following

Proton

Neutron

Electron

Match the following

Proton

Neutron

Electron