Groups of Elements of the Periodic Table
1. Using the periodic table in the back cover of your textbook, trace the outline of the boxes for each of these
elements:
Nonmetals: trace with Dark Red
Metals: trace with Dark Blue
Metalloids: trace with Dark Green
2. Using page 180 of your textbook, lightly color in the boxes for each of these elements:
Transition Metals: lightly color with Purple
Inner Transition Metals: lightly color with Orange
Representative Elements: lightly color everything else Yellow
3. Using page 177 of your textbook, draw a diagonal line through the boxes for each of these elements:
Alkali Metals: / lines of Purple
Alkaline Earth Metals: / lines of Blue
4. Using page 180 of your textbook, draw a diagonal line through the boxes for each of these elements:
Halogens: / lines of Green
Noble Gases: / lines of Orange
5. Using page 180 of your textbook, draw a diagonal line through the boxes for each of these elements:
Lanthanides: / lines of Yellow
Actinides: / lines of Red
6. Then answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper about the groups above:
Which group of elements easily loses a valence electron and are the most reactive elements on the periodic table?
Which group of elements are shiny solids that are less reactive than Alkali metals, usually found combined with
oxygen, and lose two valence electrons?
Which group of elements are reactive nonmetals that are always found combined with other elements in nature, and
tend to share or gain one electron?
Which group of elements are nonreactive gases (except for 1)?
Which group of elements are hard solids with relatively high melting and boiling points?