Name ______________________________ Class ______ Date ___________________
Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt
Use your science textbook and an Internet search engine such as
Google to answer the following questions.
1. What is a chemical symbol?
2. Why do some elements have symbols that don’t use letters in the element’s name?
3. Fill in the chemical symbols for the following elements.
NAME
SYMBOL NAME
Tungsten
Silver
Potassium
Mercury
Lead
Gold
SYMBOL
4. Differentiate between atomic number and atomic mass.
5. Look up the following elements and list their atomic number and their atomic mass.
Name
Atomic Number Atomic Mass Name
Gold
Hydrogen
Mercury
Xenon
Bromine
Iodine
Neodymium
Platinum
Potassium
Radon
Atomic Number Atomic Mass
6. What state of matter are most of the elements in the periodic table? __________________
7. What are the only two elements that are liquids at room temperature?
8. Why are Nobel Gases sometimes called the ”Inert Gases”?
9. Complete the chart below.
The Periodic
Table trends
Describe what happens to
reactivity of elements as
you move left to right
across the periodic table.
Describe what happens to
atomic mass as you move
left to right across the
periodic table.
Describe what happens to
atomic mass as you move
top to bottom across the
periodic table.
Describe what happens to
atomic number as you
move left to right across
the periodic table.
Describe what happens to
atomic number as you
move top to bottom across
the periodic table.
10. What feature on the Periodic Table separates the metals and nonmetals?
11. Some elements are radioactive. What does radioactive mean? Name 3 radioactive
elements.
12. Complete the following rable.
The Transition
METALS
Define transition metals.
Where are they on the
periodic table?
List 3 physical properties of
transition metals.
List 3 examples.
The Metalloid
Family
Define metalloid.
List 3 physical properties of
metalloids.
The Halogen
Family
Halogen = from the Greek
words meaning...
Interesting Fact
Halogens that are SOLID
They are the only family to have a solid, liquid, AND gases in
their family.
Halogens that are LIQID
Halogens that are GASES
The Alkali
Family
List the elements that make up
this family.
What happens when you
combine these elements with
water? (Read the caption for
figure 9 on page 321.)
What are the physical
properties of alkali metals?
The Alkaline
List the elements that make up
this family.
Describe the physical
properties of alkaline earth
metals. (Last 2 sentences on
page 321.)
Earth Family