Square+Facts

Answer in full sentences with defined pronouns or write questions and answers.

1. What is an Atomic Number?

2. What is a proton?

3. What is a neutron?

4. What is Atomic Mass?

5. Atomic mass minus atomic number gives you what fact?

6. How does atomic mass change in your arrangement of squares going across and down? (You can also see this on the real periodic table.)

7. What fact is the major fact that identifies a square?

8. Where in your arrangement of squares are the metals found, semimetals found, nonmetals found, and inert gases found? (You can also see this on the real periodic table.)

9. In the periodic table, what are horizontal rows called? What is the left to right pattern? Look at the colors on your squares.

10. What are the vertical columns of the periodic table called? Tell facts about three columns.

11. What is the atomic symbol and name of square 26?

12. Squares 26 and 29 are in which of the four groups of metals?

13. In your arrangement of squares, number 26 and 29 are below squares of similar numbers. What group is displayed like this in the real periodic table? (What groups of elements are removed from and displayed below the main part of the periodic table?) (back)