Chemistry Scavenger Hunt

How many elements naturally occur as a gas?

11

How many elements are manmade?

28(?)

How many elements are radioactive?

38(?)

How many elements are metalloids?

7

What are the Group I elements called?

Alkali Metals

"Argos" is a Greek word which means lazy. Which element is named after Argos?

Argon (Ar)

List the 15 elements named after scientists

Bohrium (Bh), Copernicium (Cn), Curium (Cm), Einsteinium (Es), Fermium (Fm), Gadolinium (Gd), Lawrencium (Lr), Meitnerium (Mt), Mendelevium (Md), Nobelium (No), Roentgenium (Rg), Rutherfordium (Rf), Seaborgium (Sg)

Write the names of the metalloids

Boron (B), Silicon (Si), Germanium (Ge), Arsenic (As), Antimony (Sb), Tellurium (Te), Polonium (Po)

"Bromos" means stench in Greek, this is a stinky element

Bromine (Br)

Which two elements naturally occur as liquids?

Bromine (Br) and Mercury (Hg)

All life on Earth is ______ based

Carbon

Which five elements make up 99% of biomolecules?

Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H), Oxygen (O), Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P)

"Chlor" means green. Which element is a green gas?

Chlorine (Cl)

"Kobold" means goblin or evil spirit in German. Miners would die unexpectedly while mining for this element

Cobalt (Co)

Which elements belong to the Halogen group?

Fluorine (F), Chlorine (Cl), Bromine (Br), Iodine (I), Astatine (At)

This element got its element symbol from the Latin word "Aurum"

Gold (Au)

Which elements belong to the Noble Gases?

Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), Radon (Rn).

From the Greek words which mean "water forming"

Hydrogen (H)

The element that only has a single proton as its nucleus

Hydrogen (H)

Which element is not organized with its group on the Periodic Table?

Hydrogen (H)

Named after the Greek word for "violet"

Iodine (I)

Which group of elements is called the Rare Earth Metals?

Lanthanides

Write the elements whose name starts with "M"

Magnesium (Mg), Manganese (Mn), Meitnerium (Mt), Mendelevium (Md), Mercury (Hg), Molybdenum (Mo), Moscovium (Mc)

Write the element symbols which begin with "M"

Md, Mg, Mn, Mt, Mo, Mc

Named after the German word "Kupfernickel" German miners thought they had found copper but after smelting had only a silvery metal

Nickel (Ni)

Which group of elements are the most stable and RARELY react with other elements?

Noble Gases

From the two Greek words which mean "acid forming"

Oxygen (O)

This element is named after the Greek word which means "light bearing." The element glows in the dark and catches on fire in the air giving off a bright flame

Phosphorus (P)

Marie Curie witnessed a bright ray of light while experimenting with this element whose name is Latin

Radium (Ra)

This element derived its element symbol from the Latin word "argentum"

Silver (Ag)

Which state are most elements found in?

Solid

Which group contains elements which are all radioactive?

The Actinides.

Which two elements are named after Scandinavian mythology? Name the God and explain their purpose. Which group of elements do these two elements belong to?

Thorium (Th)- Thor, god of thunder Vandium (V)- Vandis, goddess of beauty Both are actinides.

Which element sounds like "Titanic"?

Titanium (Ti)

Which is the largest group of metals?

Transition Metals

Which three elements are named after Greek mythology? Which group do they belong to?

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List the nine (10?) elements with their symbol, whose element symbol starts with a different letter than their element name

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List the eleven (10?) elements called "Other Metals"

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Which eleven(10?) elements are found along the stair steps between metals and metalloids?

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Which ten radioactive elements are NOT manmade?

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Which elements are named after celestial bodies, write which heavenly body they are named after

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List the elements named after geographic locations and write the geographic location next to them

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