NAME:___________________________________________________ DATE __________________
Chemical Bonding Webquest
IONIC BONDS: Google search Teachers Domain Ionic Bonding and click the first link, or,
Go to: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/lsps07_int_ionicbonding/
1. Describe what happens when two negatively charged particles interact with one another. (you can
draw a diagram to help illustrate your ideas)
2. When will oppositely charged atoms stick together?
3. What is an ion?
a. What is a cation and where can you find it on the periodic table?
b. What is an anion and where can you find it on the periodic table?
4. Under certain conditions, what is a chlorine atom able to do to a sodium atom?
5. Once this happens, the two ions are attracted to each other. What causes this attraction?
6. Draw the Na and Cl after they have bonded. Label the Na and Cl as either + or -, and label each as
either Cation or Anion.
7. Describe how ionic compounds form crystals.
8. What does the formula of an ionic compound tell you?
COVALENT BONDS: Google search Teachers Domain Covalent Bonding Tutorial and click the first
link, or, Go to: http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/lsps07_int_covalentbond/
1. What happens to the electrons in a covalent bond?
2. What does the nucleus of an atom do to its own electrons?
3. What does the nucleus of one atom do to the electrons of a nearby atom?
4. Are the atoms really “sharing” electrons? What are they doing?
5. What type of atoms form covalent bonds?
6. What happens to the stability of atoms when they form covalent bonds?
7. A line can be used to represent a covalent bond between two atoms. Diagram pairs of atoms that
can form single, double, and triple bonds.
8. Can every atom form each of these kinds of bonds?
**Skip the slides on naming**