Chemistry Review Unit VI (Periodicity)

· Principal Energy Levels, Sublevels, Orbitals

· Electron Configuration, Hund's Rule
· Ground/Excited State Configurations
· Valence Shell, Valence Electrons
· Periods and Groups, the Periodic Law
· Periodicity: Ionization Energy, Electronegativity, Atomic and Ionic Radii
· Comparison of Metals, Nonmetals and Semimetals (Metalloids)

Principal Energy Levels, Sublevels, Orbitals

__ 1) The minimum number of electrons that occur in principal energy level
#1 is
a) 1
b) 2
c) 4
d) 8

__ 2) According to Bohr, the more energy an electron possesses,

a) the more stable is it
b) the smaller is the energy emitted
c) the farther it is from the nucleus
d) the closer it is to the nucleus

__ 3) A 2s electron
a) is probably farther from the nucleus than a 1s electron
b) travels in an elliptical path around the nucleus
c) is usually farther from the nucleus than a 2p electron
d) has more energy than a 2p electron

__ 4) The number of sublevels in the fourth principal energy level is

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

__ 5) The highest energy sublevel in principal energy level 3 is

a) 2p
b) 3s
c) 3p
d) 3d

Electron Configuration, Hund's Rule

__ 6) The 4f sublevel is filled next after the
a) 6s sublevel
b) 5p sublevel
c) 5s sublevel
d) 4d sublevel

__ 7) 1s2 2s2 2p2 is the electron configuration of

a) carbon
 b) lithium
c) silicon
d) nitrogen

Questions 8) - 10): Base your answers on the following elctron configuration of

a neutral atom:

1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p4

__ 8) What is the total number of s electrons in this atom?

a) 6
b) 2
c) 16
d) 4

__ 9) The total number of electrons in the second principal energy level is

a) 6
b) 2
c) 8
d) 4

__ 10) How many orbitals are half-filled in an atom of this element in the
ground state?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 6

Ground/Excited State Configurations

__ 11) Which is the electron configuration of an atom in the excited state?
a) 1s2 2s1
b) 1s2 2s2 2p1
c) 1s2 2s2 2p5
d) 1s2 2s2 2p5 3s1

__ 12) Which electron configuration contains three half-filled orbitals?

a) 1s2 2s2 2p6
b) 1s2 2s2 2p5
c) 1s2 2s2 2p3
d) 1s2 2s2 2p4

__ 13) Which is the electron configuration of a neutral atom in the ground

state with a total of six valence electrons?
a) 1s2 2s2 2p2
b) 1s2 2s2 2p4
c) 1s2 2s2 2p6
c) 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6

__ 14) Which electron transition represents the release of energy?

a) 1s —> 3p
b) 2s —> 2p
c) 3p —> 1s
 d) 2p —> 3s

__ 15) Which electron transition represents the biggest release of energy?

a) 4s —> 3d
b) 4s —> 3s
c) 3p —> 3s
d) 5d —> 2s

Valence Shell, Valence Electrons

__ 16) The valence shell of a neutral atom in the ground state is the
a) principal energy level that is farthest from the nucleus
b) principal energy level that is nearest to the nucleus
c) electron configuration of a noble gas
d) p sublevel that is farthest from the nucleus

__ 17) The maximum number of valence electrons is

a) 2
b) 5
c) 6
d) 8

__ 18) What is the number of valence electrons of an atom of gold in the

ground state?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 6
d) 8

__ 19) Which of the following atoms in the ground state has seven valence
electrons?
a) N
b) Zn
c) Cd
d) I

__ 20) The sublevels below represent an atom's valence shell in the ground
state.

… s2 p2

The diagram could represent the valence shell of

a) Li
b) Si
c) Al
d) Cl

Periods and Groups, the Periodic Law

__ 21) The elements in the present Periodic Table are arranged according to
their
a) atomic numbers
b) atomic masses
c) mass numbers
 d) neutron numbers

__ 22) Which three elements have the most similar chemical properties?
a) Ar, Kr, Br
b) K, Rb, Cs
c) B, C, N
d) O, N, Si

__ 23) Which halogen is a solid at STP?

a) fluorine
b) chlorine
c) bromine
d) iodine
__ 24) The majority of the elements are
a) metals
b) nonmetals
c) metalloids
d) noble gases

__ 25) Elements in Period 3 are alike in that they have all the same number of
a) protons
b) neutrons
c) valence electrons
d) occupied principal energy levels

Periodicity: Ionization Energy, Electronegativity, Atomic and Ionic Radii

__ 26) The reactivity of the metals in Groups 1 and 2 generally increases with
a) increased ionization energy
b) increased atomic radius
c) decreased nuclear charge
d) decreased mass

__ 27) Which of the Group 15 elements can lose an electron most readily?
a) N
b) P
c) Sb
d) Bi

__ 28) Which atomic number sequence represents elements with similar

chemical properties?
a) 19, 23, 30, 36
b) 9, 16, 33, 50
c) 3, 12, 21, 40
d) 4, 20, 38, 88

__ 29) As the elements in Group 18 are considered in order of increasing

atomic number, the ionization energy of each successive element
a) increases
b) decreases
c) stays the same

__ 30) With increasing group number, the atomic radius within a period
a) increases
b) decreases
c) stays the same

Comparison of Metals, Nonmetals and Semimetals (Metalloids)

__ 31) The alkaline earth metals are found in group
a) 1
b) 2
c) 11
d) 12

__ 32) Which of the group 15 elements has the most metallic character?
a) N
 b) P
c) Sb
d) Bi

__ 33) Which group contains elements in the solid, liquid and gaseous state at
STP?
a) 17
b) 2
c) 18
d) 4

__ 34) Which groups contains elements that are so active chemically that they
occur naturally only in compounds?
a) 1 and 2
b) 2 and 12
c) 1 and 11
d) 11 and 12

__ 35) Which group of elements contains a semimetal (metalloid)?

a) 1
b) 7
c) 13
d) 18

Answers
1) A
2) C
3) A
4) D
5) D
6) A
7) A
8) A
9) C
10) B
11) D
12) C
13) B
14) C
15) D
16) A
17) D
18) A
19) D
20) B
21) A
22) B
23) D
24) A
25) D
26) B
27) D
28) D
29) B
30) B
31) B
32) D
33) A
34) A
35) C