Name: _______________________________ Date: __________________ Hour: ____________
Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids
1. What is a physical property?
2. What is a chemical property?
3. What is the difference between a chemical and a physical property?
4. Give 2 examples of each physical and chemical properties, and explain how they are
different.
5. Give four properties that are generally present in metals?
6. If steel (a metal) is hard and granite (a nonmetal) is hard, why don’t we make automobile
engines out of granite?
7. What are metalloids used for?
8. How do metalloids affect modern technology?