Introduction to Ionic Compounds Worksheet
Learning Targets
Directions:
Students will explain that an atom will lose electrons to obtain a stable configuration forming a
cation.
Students will explain that an atom will gain electrons to obtain a stable configuration forming an
anion.
Students will explain how an ionic bond gives the various properties of ionic compounds
including brittleness, high melting/boiling points, conductivity, state of matter and lattice energy.
Students will draw/sketch a representation of the formation of an ionic bond.
Answer the following questions to review ionic compounds.
1. Explain why forming a cation with a 1+ charge will make a potassium atom stable.
2. Explain why forming an anion with a 2- charge will make an oxygen atom stable.
3. Determine what charge the following elements will make when becoming ions.
a. aluminum
f. iodine
k. phosphorus
b. barium
g. lithium
l.
c. calcium
h. magnesium
m. sodium
d. chlorine
i.
nitrogen
n. sulfur
e. fluorine
j.
oxygen
4. Explain why ionic compounds are brittle.
5. Describe the conductivity of ionic compounds as a solid and in water.
6. Draw the formation of an ionic bond between rubidium and fluorine.
THERE ARE QUESTIONS ON THE BACK!
potassium
7. Draw the formation of an ionic bond between lithium and sulfur.
8. Draw the formation of an ionic bond between aluminum and nitrogen.
9. Draw the formation of an ionic bond between barium and phosphorus.