Chem. Reading Guide
Topic: Atomic Orbitals
Name:_______________________
Wilbraham et al: Page 131-136
Part I: Before Reading:
1. What background information do you already know about Characteristics of Elements?
Question
Answer
What is an Element?
An element is a type of atom with a specific number of
____________, that do NOT change.
What part of an
element never
changes?
____________ never change in an element. That is what makes each
element unique on the periodic table.
What parts of an
element are in the
nucleus?
___________ and ______________ are found in the nucleus of an
atom.
What parts of an atom
are floating around the
outside of an element?
_____________ are floating around the protons and neutrons in the
nucleus.
What did Erwin
Schrödinger add to the
Cloud Model of an
atom?
What is a property of
an element?
Erwin Schrödinger made a _______________ model to determine the
most likely _______________ of an electron.
A property of an element is a way to ______________ an element
based on its physical ___________ and how it chemically __________
without elements, when it undergoes a chemical change.
During Reading: Read to answer the following essential questions, and answer them at the end:
Essential Question to think about when you are reading
How are electrons related to the properties of elements?
To organize the important information in this section, use the following note-taking guide:
Study Questions: Atomic Orbitals
Answer
1. According to Schrödinger,
Each electron can have different ____________ ____________.
what does each electron
have?
2. What is an atomic orbital?
An atomic orbital is a region of _____________ in which there is a high
3. What tells each energy level
in an atom?
4. What does each energy
sublevel correspond to?
5. What is used to represent
the different atomic
orbitals, which have
different shapes?
_______________ finding an electron.
Each energy level in an atom are labeled by _____________ __________
_____________.
Each energy sublevel corresponds to an ____________ of a different
____________, which describes _________________________________.
Different atomic orbitals are represented by ________________.
orbital
Describe the
shape
Draw a picture of the
shape
Write the number
of orbitals at each
energy level
s
6. What are the shapes of the
orbitals?
p
d
f
Study Questions: Electron
Configurations
7. What is the interaction
between the nucleus and
the electrons that are
around it?
8. What is an electron
configuration?
9. What is the Aufbau
Principal?
10. What is the Pauli Exclusion
Principle?
11. What is Hund’s rule?
12. How do you write the
Answer (in your own words)
Electrons and the nucleus interact to…
Electron configurations are…
Electrons occupy the…
Each orbital can have…
Each orbital must have opposite ___________.
Hund’s rule says that ____________ electrons enter each orbital until…
orbital filling diagram for the
element, Flourine?
13. What is the shorthand way
to write the electron
configuration of oxygen?
F: _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
1s
2s
2px 2py 2pz
3s
The shorthand method for showing the electron configuration of oxygen
is…
Study Questions:
Answer (in your own words)
Exceptional Electron
Configurations
14. What are more stable, filled
energy levels or partially
filled energy levels?
Study Questions: Electron
Answer (in your own words)
Configurations in Groups
15. What plays a key role in
determining the property of
elements?
****AFTER reading this section: return to your essential question, and answer it. ***
How are electrons related to the properties of elements?