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What is an Element?

AN ELEMENT IS THE BUILDLING BLOCK OF MATTER.

SIMPLEST SUBSTANCE.

MADE ENTIRELY FROM ONE TYPE OF ATOM.

CANNOT BE DIVIDED INTO ANYTHING SMALLER.

On the periodic table, What are the rows called? What do

they all have in common?

PERIODS – ALL THE ELEMNTS IN THE SAME PERIOD

HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF ATOMIC ORBITS/SHELLS.

What is a shell?

ORBITALS – CAN HOLD DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF

ELECTRONS

1. A shell is sometimes called an orbital or energy level.

2. Shells are areas that surround the center of an atom.

What are the columns called? What do they all have in

common?

GROUPS - SILMILAR CONFIGURATIONS

EACH COLUMN HAS THE SAME NUMBER OF

ELECTRONS IN OUTER SHELL (VALENCE ELECTRONS)

What is an atom?

ATOMS MAKE UP EVERYTHING!

BASIC UNIT OF AN ELEMENT.

CANNOT BE SEEN.

MADE OF PROTONS, ELECTRONS AND NEUTRONS.

What is a nucleus?

MIDDLE OF THE ATOM / THE CENTRE

PROTONS AND NEUTRONS IN THE NUCLEUS

POSITIVELY CHARGED (BECAUSE OF THE PROTONS)

ELECTRONS, THEY SURROUND

Define Atomic Number :

# OF PROTONS IN THE NUCLEUS OF AN ATOM (ALSO #

ELECTRONS)

Define Atomic Mass:

# OF PROTONS, ELECTRONS AND NEUTRONS IN AN
ATOM

MASS OF THE ATOM

Choose any 6 elements and find the following

information (referring only to the periodic table):

Symbol Symbol Symbol

Atomic number Atomic number Atomic number

Atomic mass Atomic mass Atomic mass
# protons # protons # protons
# electrons # electrons # electrons
# neutrons # neutrons # neutrons

Symbol Symbol Symbol

Atomic number Atomic number Atomic number
Atomic mass Atomic mass Atomic mass
# protons # protons # protons
# electrons # electrons # electrons
# neutrons # neutrons # neutrons