Question 1

What does ductile mean?

Accepted Answer

ability to be drawn into wire

Answer

ability to be hammered/rolled into sheets

Question 2

What does malleable mean?

Accepted Answer

ability to be hammered/rolled into sheets

Answer

ability to be drawn into wire

Question 3

When metal atoms share their outermost electrons with a nonmetal, the metal and nonmetal become __________.

Accepted Answer

More chemically stable

Answer

Radioactive

Answer

Less chemically table

Answer

Electrically charged

Question 4

Which group of metals often form colored compounds, are less reactive than other groups and often occur in nature as uncombined elements?

Accepted Answer

transition metals

Answer

alkali metals

Answer

inner transition metals

Answer

alkaline earth metals

Question 5

Which group of metals are responsible for the color of fireworks?

Accepted Answer

alkaline earth metals

Answer

transition metals

Answer

actinides

Answer

lanthanides

Question 6

Which group of metals are all radioactive?

Accepted Answer

actinides

Answer

alkaline earth metals

Answer

transition metals

Answer

lanthanides

Question 7

Which metals are known as the “coinage metals?”

Accepted Answer

copper, silver & gold

Answer

iron, cobalt & nickel

Answer

zinc, cadmium & mercury

Answer

magnesium, calcium & strontium

Question 8

Which group of metals are softer than other metals & must be stored in oil because they react rapidly with oxygen & water?

Accepted Answer

alkali metals

Answer

lanthanides

Answer

actinides

Answer

alkaline earth metals

Question 9

Which metals are the most common magnetic elements and used in steel and other metal mixtures?

Accepted Answer

iron triad (iron, cobalt and nickel)

Answer

copper, silver & gold

Answer

zinc, cadmium & mercury

Answer

magnesium, calcium & strontium

Question 10

Which of the following is most abundant metal in Earth’s crust?

Accepted Answer

Aluminum

Answer

Iron

Answer

Cobalt

Answer

Nickel

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