Vocabulary Crossword - Chapter 2
Across
- 4. Light, negatively charged particle found in shells outside of the nucleus.
- 7. Heavy particle found in the nucleus of atoms that have no charge.
- 8. Substance with a pH less than 7.
- 10. Abbreviation for the six elements that make up most of living matter.
- 11. Number on the periodic table that indicates the average weight of an element's atoms.
- 13. Substance with a pH greater than 7.
- 14. Elements that tend to attract electrons within a covalent bond are _____.
- 16. Weak bonds between polar molecules such as water.
- 20. One or two letter abbreviation for elements on the periodic table.
- 22. Bond in which atoms gain or lose electrons and are attracted magnetically.
- 23. Matter that cannot be broken down further into simpler substances with unique properties.
- 24. Solution that resists changes in pH.
Down
- 1. Heavy, positively charged particle found in the nucleus of atoms.
- 2. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
- 3. Bond in which electrons are unequally shared.
- 5. Atoms of two or more different elements bonded together.
- 6. Number not found on the periodic table that indicates the number of protons + neutrons in an atom.
- 7. Bond in which atoms share electrons equally..
- 9. Charged atom that results from a gain or loss of electrons.
- 12. The outermost electron shell of an atom that determines how it reacts.
- 15. An atom with the mass number twenty-two and the atomic number ten has _____ neutrons.
- 17. Specific region of an electron cloud that contains a pair of electrons.
- 18. Number on the periodic table that indicates the number of protons in an atom of the element.
- 19. An atom with the atomic number eight will have _____ electrons in its valence shell.
- 21. Any two atoms bonded together.