Chapters 5, 6, & 7 – Flashcards
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            | Rutherford's model of the atom (nuclear) did not explain what two things regarding electrons? | 
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        | how the electrons occupy the space around the nucleus and why the negatively charged electrons aren't pulled into the atom's positively charged nucleus | 
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            | Analysis of light helped determine that an atom's chemical reactivity is due to the arrangement of its what? | 
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        | electrons | 
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            | What is a form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space? | 
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        | electromagnetic radiation | 
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            | What is the number of waves that pass a given point per second? | 
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        | frequency | 
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            | What is the greek letter frequency is represented by? | 
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        | nu | 
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            | What is the shortest distance between equivalent points on continuous wave? | 
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        | wavelength | 
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            | What greek letter is wavelength represented by? | 
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        | lambda | 
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            | What is a wave's height from the origin to a crew or origin to a trough? | 
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        | amplitude | 
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            | The higher the frequency of a wave, the ______ its wavelength. | 
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        | shorter | 
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            | The lower the frequency of a wave, the __________ the wavelength. | 
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        | longer | 
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            | When white light is bent by a prism, it forms a series of colors. List the acronym that represents these colors. | 
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        | ROYGBIV | 
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            | What does ROYGBIV mean? | 
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        | red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet | 
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            | Which color has the shortest wavelength and the greets energy at what value? | 
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        | violet, 400nm | 
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            | Which color has the shortest wavelength and least energy at what value? | 
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        | red, 700nm | 
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            | Max Planck concluded that matter can gain or lose energy only in small, specific amounts called what? | 
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        | quanta | 
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            | What is the minimum amount of energy that can be gain or lost by an atom? | 
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        | quantum | 
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            | What is the number value with units of Planck's constant? | 
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        | 6.626 x 10^-34 J*s | 
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            | When electrons are emitted from a metal's surface when light of a certain frequency shines on the surface? | 
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        | photoelectric effect | 
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            | In 1905, Einstein props that electromagnetic radiation was both ____________ and _________ _____ natures. | 
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        | wavelike and particle like | 
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            | What is a particle of electromagnetic radiation with no mass that carries a quantum of energy? | 
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        | photon | 
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            | What is the set of frequencies of the electromagnetic waves emitted by atoms of an element (like neon)? | 
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        | atomic emission spectrum | 
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            | What is the lowest allowable energy state of an atom? | 
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        | ground state | 
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            | What state is it called when an atom gains energy? | 
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        | excited electron state | 
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            | When an atom drops back from excited to the ground state, it emits what that corresponds wight he amount of energy? | 
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        | photon | 
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            | What did Bohr compare his model to? (it takes energy to get up and you cannot go in between) | 
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        | 7 rungs of a ladder | 
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            | What are the three series that describe hydrogen's spectral lines? | 
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        | Lyman, Balmer, and Paschen | 
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            | Which series describes hydrogen's spectral lines for the ultraviolet? | 
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        | Lyman | 
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            | Which series that describes hydrogen's spectral lines for visible lines? | 
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        | Balmer | 
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            | What series describes hydrogen's spectral lines are for the infrared? | 
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        | Paschen | 
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            | Who worked on Bohr's model and made the assumption that particles of matter like electrons may act like what? | 
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        | De Brogile, waves | 
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            | What states it is fundamentally impossible to know precisely both the velocity and position of a particle at the same time? | 
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        | Heisenburg uncertainty principle | 
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            | Schrodinger developed an atomic model in which electrons are treated as waves called what? | 
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        | the quantum mechanical model of the atom | 
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            | What is a three dimensional region around the nucleus that describes an electron's probable location? | 
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        | atomic orbital | 
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            | All "s" orbitals are what shaped? | 
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        | spherical | 
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            | All "p" orbitals are what shaped? | 
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        | dumbbell | 
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            | What is the arrangement of electrons in an atom called? | 
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        | electron configuration | 
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            | What states that each electron occupies the lowest energy orbital available? | 
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        | Aufbau principle | 
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            | What states that single electrons with the same spin must occupy each equal-energy orbital before additional electrons with opposite spins can occupy the same orbital? | 
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        | Hund's rule | 
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            | What states that a maximum of two electrons may occupy a single atomic orbital, but only if the electrons have opposite spins? | 
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        | The Pauli exclusion principle | 
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            | What are electrons in an atom's outermost orbital? | 
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        | valence electrons | 
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            | What do valence electrons do? | 
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        | determine chemical reactivity of the atom | 
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            | What structure did Lewis devise that consists of the element's symbol which represents the atomic nucleus and inner level electrons, surrounded by dots representing the atoms's what? | 
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        | electron dot, valence electrons | 
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            | All stars are composed manly of what two gases? | 
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        | hydrogen and helium | 
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            | What one element that does not occur naturally on Earth but is found in stars using a spectroscope? | 
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        | technetium | 
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            | Who developed the first periodic table in 1869? | 
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        | Dmitri Mendeleev | 
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            | How was the first periodic table arranged? | 
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        | by increasing atomic mass into columns with similar properties | 
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            | Who changed the way the elements were arranged on the periodic table? | 
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        | Henry Mosely | 
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            | There is a periodic repetition of chemical and physical properties of the elements when they are arranged by increasing atomic number that is stated in what law? | 
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        | periodic law | 
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            | What are the horizontal rows of elements called? | 
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        | periods | 
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            | What are the vertical columns on the periodic table called? | 
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        | groups or families | 
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            | The groups designated with a B are referred to as what? | 
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        | transition metals | 
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            | The groups designated by an A are referred to as what and why? | 
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        | representative elements bc of a wide range of chemical and physical properties | 
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            | What are elements that are shiny, solid at room temperature, good conductors of heat and electricity? | 
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        | metals | 
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            | What is metal that can be pounded into thin sheets called? | 
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        | malleable | 
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            | What is the term for when metals can be drawn into wires? | 
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        | ductile | 
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            | On the periodic table, what color are the metals? | 
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        | blue | 
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            | On the periodic table, what color are the nonmetals? | 
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        | yellow | 
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            | On the periodic table, what color are the metalloids? | 
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        | green | 
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            | Elements in group 1A except what element are called what? | 
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        | hydrogen, alkali | 
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            | Elements in 2A are called what? | 
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        | alkaline earth metals | 
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            | List the elements that are considered metalloids? | 
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        | boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, tellurium, polonium, astantine | 
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            | What are the only two elements on the periodic table that are liquids at room temperature? | 
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        | bromine and mercury | 
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            | What do the inner transition metals consist of and are located at the bottom of the table? | 
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        | lanthanide and actinide | 
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            | What are the elements in the B element position? | 
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        | transition metals | 
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            | Where are nonmetals located on the periodic table? | 
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        | upper right side | 
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            | What are generally brittle or gases, or dull looking solids and are poor conductors of heat and electricity? | 
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        | nonmetals | 
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            | What are the highly reactive 7A elements called? | 
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        | halogens | 
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            | What are the highly nonreactive 8A elects called? | 
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        | noble gases | 
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            | Which two metalloids are used in computer chips and solar cells? | 
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        | silicon and germanium | 
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            | Atoms of the same what have similar chemical properties why? | 
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        | group, they have the same number of valence electrons | 
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            | What is the only noble gas that has two valence electrons? | 
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        | helium | 
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            | Which groups of elements make up the p block? | 
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        | 3A-8A except Uuq | 
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            | Which groups make up the f block? | 
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        | inner transition metals | 
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            | Which group makes up the s block? | 
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        | 1A and 2A plus hydrogen and helium | 
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            | Which groups make up the d block? | 
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        | transition metals (largest block) 1B-8B and Uuq  | 
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            | What is a characteristic that can be observed or measured without changing the sample/s composition? | 
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        | physical property |