Periodic Table Scavenger Hunt: AP Environmental Science
1. Find 12 chemical symbol; describe where it is most commonly found and what
2. ‘damage’ it does in the environment or for human health.
Name
Symbol
Use/impact
lead
Pb
Gasoline/ brain damage
Arsenic
As
Paper/poison
Mercury
Hg
Dissolving rocks/Poison
Iridium
Ir
Pen tips/highly flammable
Uranium
U
Bombs/radiation
Plutonium
Pu
Nuclear reactors/pollution
Chlorine
Cl
Cleans pools/ bad for eyes
Thallium
Tl
Electronics/headaches
Tungsten
W
Heating/ harmful on contact
Gallium
Ga
Conductor/severely irritate
skin
Krypton
Kr
Florescent lights/nausea
Neon
Ne
Lights/frostbite