Visualizing ConceptsThese exercises are intended to probe your understanding of key concep...

Visualizing Concepts

These exercises are intended to probe your understanding of key concepts rather than your ability to utilize formulas and perform calculations.

Exercises with red numbers have answers in the back of the book.

Four of the boxes in the following periodic table are colored. Which of these are metals and which are nonmetals? Which one is an alkaline earth metal? Which one is a noble gas? [Section]