Question

Describe how the periodic table differentiates between metals and nonmetals.

What type of element is most abundant: metals, nonmetals, or metalloids?


Give the names and symbols of three metalloids from the periodic table.


Identify items in your life that are made of each type of element: metal, nonmetal, and metalloid. For each item, explain why the properties of that type of element are necessary for the function of that item.

Example: Metal: My curling iron has metal in its wires and on the barrel of the iron. The metal wires are necessary to conduct electricity and the metal on the barrel is necessary to conduct the heat that causes my hair to curl.


Metal:



Nonmetal:



Metalloid:

Answer 1

iron chloride and hydrogen

Answer 2

1. Metals are found on the left side of the periodic table, and Non-metals are found on the left side.

2. Metals are the most abundant on the periodic table.

3. Germanium (Ge), Arsenic (As), Atimony (Sb).

4.

Metal: My remote control for my Television has metal wiring in it, This is so it can conduct electricity throughout the remote with the batteries.

Non-metal: My fertilizer I use for my garden contains Potassium, this is so my plants can grow big and healthy.

Metalloid: There is silicon in the circuits of my house, this is used as a semiconductor.