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Atomic Model Project Short Answer/Essay Questions
(Type your answers on a separate sheet. You will need to do some
research to find the answers.)
1.
What information can be found on the periodic table, and where can it be
found on the table? Be sure to describe everything that can be found!!
2.
What do elements in the same column have in common?
3.
How does having this in common affect how they bond with other
elements?
4. An initial step in the development of the periodic table was the identification of
elements. The first scientific discovery of an element was the discovery of this
element by an alchemist in 1649. What was the name of this element, and
what was the name of the alchemist? (Remember, this question has two
answers).
5. When reading the periodic table, why does the atomic mass have a decimal
in the number?
6. Which two atoms will have their outer energy level filled with 2 electrons?
7. What is the importance of 8 valence electrons?
8. What do all noble (inert) gases have in common? Why don’t noble gases
react with other elements? (Two answers.)
9.
What is used to identify an element? What happens if this number
changes? (Remember, there are two answers to this question.)
10. Dazzium and Mimoium are both found in group 4, but Dazzium is in period 2,
whereas Mimoium is in period 3. What does this tell us about these imaginary
elements?