U4.1 Review (History of the Periodic Table)
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- Q1
Who organized elements into groups of three called triads?
Lothar Meyer
John Newlands
William Ramsay
Henry Moseley
Dmitri Mendeleev
Johann Dobereiner
60s - Q2
Who was the first to organize the elements in order of increasing atomic mass?
Johann Dobereiner
John Newlands
William Ramsay
Lothar Meyer
Henry Moseley
Dmitri Mendeleev
60s - Q3
When elements are organized in order of increasing atomic mass, every eighth element has similar properties. This observation is referred to as the ____.
law of nonaves
law of eighths
law of octaves
ordinance of eights
60s - Q4
Who organized the elements in order of increasing atomic number and put the elements with similar properties into columns?
John Newlands
Henry Moseley
William Ramsay
Lothar Meyer
Dmitri Mendeleev
Johann Dobereiner
60s - Q5
There were times when Mendeleev didn't completely follow his rules when placing elements in his periodic table. For example, he switch iodine and tellurium on the periodic table, in spite of the fact that tellurium has a larger atomic mass than iodine. Why did he do this?
The properties of iodine more closely matched the properties of elements like fluorine, chlorine, and bromine.
There are always exceptions to rules, and he made this exception because he could.
He had no good reason to make this switch.
The properties of tellurium more closely matched the properties of elements like fluorine, chlorine, and bromine.
60s - Q6
There were times when Mendeleev didn't completely follow his rules when placing elements in his periodic table. For example, according to his rules, arsenic should come immediately after zinc. However, he put arsenic in the same column as nitrogen and phosphorus because its properties more closely matched these elements. As a result, he put two blank spaces in his periodic table Why did he do this?
So his periodic table would be easier to publish.
He had no good reason to put these gaps in the periodic table. He just wanted to do it.
He realized that there were two elements that had not been discovered yet.
Sometimes there are just gaps in the periodic table.
60s - Q7
What made Mendeleev's periodic table such a powerful tool compared to the periodic tables of his competitors?
His table was prettier to look at than other scientists' ways of organizing elements.
His periodic able was not able to make any predictions about any elements that had not been discovered yet.
He was the OG periodic table guy, so his periodic table had to be good.
He was able to make predictions about the existence and properties of elements that had not been discovered yet.
60s - Q8
Who is responsible for the addition of another column on the periodic table with his discovery of the noble gases?
Henry Moseley
William Ramsay
John Newlands
Johann Dobereiner
Dmitri Mendeleev
Lothar Meyer
60s - Q9
Who organized the elements based on increasing atomic number, giving us the modern periodic table we use today?
Dmitri Mendeleev
Lothar Meyer
Henry Moseley
Johann Dobereiner
William Ramsay
John Newlands
60s - Q10
When elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number, there is a periodic repetition of their physical and chemical properties. This observation is referred to as ____.
periodic law
periodic rule
repetitious law
ordinary ordinance
60s - Q11
Horizontal rows in the periodic table are called ____.
periods
groups
rows
families
60s - Q12
Vertical columns in the periodic table are called ____.
clans
rows
groups
periods
60s - Q13
Elements in the same vertical column have different chemical properties.
falsetrueTrue or False60s - Q14
Elements in the same period have different chemical properties.
truefalseTrue or False60s - Q15
There are three major categories of elements. Which category makes up the majority of the elements?
metalloids
metals
nonmetalloids
nonmetals
60s