Name that element
1.
2.
3.
4.
Using your periodic table, identify 12 elements that do not have symbols based on their English names.
Your teacher will help you in identifying the language of the original name:
1.
5.
9.
2.
6.
10.
3.
7.
11.
4.
8.
12.
Find six of the elements named after famous scientists.
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
6.
Find four of the elements named after planets.
1.
3.
2.
4.
Find four elements named after countries and two named after continents
1.
5.
2.
6.
3.
4.
5.
Name the element named after one of the states of the United States of America.
Electron Configuration
Question 1. Find these elements on the periodic table and draw their electron configuration, carbon,
aluminium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, oxygen.
a)
Carbon
e) Magnesium
b) Aluminium
f)
Oxygen
c)
g)
Iron
Calcium
d) Phosphorus
h) Neon
Question 2. Here are the electron configurations of a number of elements. Work out the atomic number and
identify the element using the periodic table.
Electronic configurations:
a)
(2,5)
b) (2,8,5)
c)
(2,8,4)
d) (2,8,3)
e) (2,8,18,4)
The first one is done for you
(2,5), the atomic number is 7 and the chemical symbol is N