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Unit 1 - Activity 4 - Periodic Trends Research Assignment

The document contains questions about ranking elements based on atomic size and ionization energy using only their location on the periodic table. It provides answers explaining that atomic size decreases going up a group or across a period, and ionization energy increases going up a group or across a period.

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Unit 1 - Activity 4 - Periodic Trends Research Assignment

The document contains questions about ranking elements based on atomic size and ionization energy using only their location on the periodic table. It provides answers explaining that atomic size decreases going up a group or across a period, and ionization energy increases going up a group or across a period.

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Periodic Trends

1. Using only their location in the periodic table, rank the atoms in each set by decreasing atomic
size. Explain your answers.

(a) Mg, Be, Ba (b) Ca, Se, Ga (c) Br, Rb, Kr (d) Se, Br, Ca (e) Ba, Sr, Cs
(f) Se, Br, Cl (g) Mg, Ca, Li (h) Sr, Te, Se (i) In, Br, I (j) S, Se, O

2. Using only a periodic table, rank the elements in each set by increasing ionization energy.
Explain your answers.
(a) Xe, He, Ar (b) Sn, In, Sb (c) Sr, Ca, Ba (d) Kr, Br, K (e) K, Ca, Rb (f) Kr, Br, Rb

3. Using only a periodic table, identify the atom in each of the following pairs with the lower first
ionization energy.
(a) B, O (b) B, In (c) I, F (d) F, N (e) Ca, K (f) B, Tl

ANSWERS:

1. (a) Ba, Mg, Be – decrease in size as you go up a group


(b) Ca, Ga, Se – decrease in size as you go across a period
(c) Rb, Br, Kr – decrease in size as you go up a group and across a period
(d) Ca, Se, Br – decrease in size as you go across a period
(e) Cs, Ba, Sr – decrease in size as you go across a period and up a group
(f) Se, Br, and Cl – decrease in size as you go across and up a group
(g) Ca, Mg, Li – decrease in size as you go up a group
(h) Sr, Te, Se – decrease in size as you go across a period and up a group
(i) In, I, Br – decrease in size as you go across a period and up a group
(j) Se, S, O – decrease in size as you go up a group

2. (a) Xe, Ar, He – increase in ionization energy as you go up a group


(b) In, Sn, Sb – increase in ionization energy as you go across a period
(c) Ba, Sr, Ca – increase in ionization energy as you go up a group
(d) K, Br, Kr – increase in ionization energy as you go across a period
(e) Rb, K, Ca – increase in ionization energy as you go up a group and across a period
(f) Rb, Br, Kr – increase in ionization energy as you go up a group and across a period

3. (a) B (b) In (c) I (d) N (e) K (f) Tl

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