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Understanding Periods and Groups

The document contains questions about periods and groups on the periodic table. It asks how many periods and groups make up the table and how many elements are in certain periods and groups. It also asks students to name elements that reside in specific period and group locations, identify which pairs of elements would have similar properties, identify an atom from period three, and identify which atoms could reside in the same group.

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Understanding Periods and Groups

The document contains questions about periods and groups on the periodic table. It asks how many periods and groups make up the table and how many elements are in certain periods and groups. It also asks students to name elements that reside in specific period and group locations, identify which pairs of elements would have similar properties, identify an atom from period three, and identify which atoms could reside in the same group.

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Name: __________________________________

Understanding Periods and Groups

Section: ______

Directions: Using your Periodic Table of Elements and your knowledge of


periods and groups, answer the following questions.
1. How many periods make up the periodic table?

2. How many groups make up the periodic table?

3. How many elements make up period one (1)? Period three (3)? Period
six (6)?

4. How many elements make up group seven (7)? Group fourteen (14)?
Group eighteen (18)?

5. Name the element that resides here:


a. Group eighteen (18) Period five (5) ____________________
b. Period seven (7) Group two (2) ____________________
c. Group one (1) Period one (1) ____________________
d. Period three (3) Group sixteen (16) ____________________
e. Group ten (10) Period six (6) ____________________
f. Period one (1) Group eight (8) ____________________

6. Which of the following pairs would most-likely have similar physical


and chemical properties? Explain your answer.
a. Lithium and Selenium
b. Vanadium and Radon
c. Sodium and Potassium

7. Which of the following represent an atom from period three? Explain


your answer.
a.
c.

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+ +
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b.

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+ +
+
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8. Which of the following atoms could reside in the same group? Explain
your answer.
a.
b.

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c.

+ +

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