GCSE Chemistry – The periodic table

Last updated: 11/04/2020
Edexcel GCSE Science – Combined science foundation Key concepts in chemistry GCSE Chemistry – The periodic table

Learning Objectives

-I can describe the locations of metals and non-metals on the periodic table
-I can describe the use of periods and groups to classify parts of the periodic table
-I can describe the development of the early periodic table
-I can describe how Mendeleev developed the periodic table

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  1. What are the substances held in the periodic table called?

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  2. Where are metals on the periodic table?

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  3. Where are metals found on the periodic table?

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  4. Where are non-metals found on the periodic table?

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  5. How is the periodic table organised?

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  6. How can the periodic table be used?

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  7. Where are the groups on the periodic table?

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  8. Where are the periods on the periodic table?

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  9. What does the group number tell you about an atom of an element?

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  10. Which of the following groups are metals?

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  11. Which of the following groups are metals?

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  12. Which of the following groups are metals?

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  13. Which of the following groups are non-metals?

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  14. Which of the following groups are non-metals?

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  15. Which of the following groups are non-metals?

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  16. What is the name of group 0 elements?

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  17. What is the name of group 1 elements?

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  18. What is the name of group 2 elements?

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  19. What is the name of group 7 elements?

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  20. What is the name of the elements in the centre of the periodic table?

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  21. Who constructed the periodic table?

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  22. When was the periodic table first constructed?

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  23. Who constructed the very first rough idea of the periodic table that put elements in order of atomic weight?

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  24. Who constructed the second layout of the periodic table?

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  25. What did Mendeleev do for the elements that had not yet been discovered when constructing the periodic table?

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