Chemistry Form 4

Form 4 CHEMISTRY Trinity Term

Teacher: Leon Abel                                                  Email: leonabel8@gmail.com

Week 4: The Periodic Table – Read carefully then Answer ALL of the following questions:

1.     Explain the relationship between the electronic structure and the chemical properties of an element.

2.     What is a strong indication of an element’s metallic or non-metallic nature?

3.     How does the metallic and non-metallic nature of elements in Period 3 change from left to right?

4.     Which element in Period 3 has the greatest metallic nature?

5.     What is the collective name for all the elements in Group II?

6.     Does the reactivity of the elements in Group II increase or decrease down the group?

7.     Compare the reactivity of beryllium and calcium.

8.     What is similar in the electronic configuration of the elements in Group VII?

9.     How does the reactivity of the elements in Group VII change as one move up the group?

10.  Write the electronic configuration of the following:

a.      Sodium

b.     Chlorine

c.      Carbon

d.     Sulphur