Directions: Answer the questions about the reading on a separate sheet of paper. When you are finished, staple your answers to this handout and turn them in.
1. The statue of liberty is made out of copper, but why does it look green?
2. What is a chemical formula?
3. What does the subscript 2, written after the H, on the H2O chemical formula indicate?
4. An atom is chemically stable when its ____________________________ is complete.
5. How does hydrogen, or any other element, change the number of outer electrons to become stable.
6. Why is it that when sodium and chlorine combine (when they bond), they both become stable?
7. What is the definition of a chemical bond?
8. Describe two examples of how chemical bonds can form.
9. What does an electron
1. The statue of liberty is made out of copper, but why does it look green?
2. What is a chemical formula?
3. What does the subscript 2, written after the H, on the H2O chemical formula indicate?
4. An atom is chemically stable when its ____________________________ is complete.
5. How does hydrogen, or any other element, change the number of outer electrons to become stable.
6. Why is it that when sodium and chlorine combine (when they bond), they both become stable?
7. What is the definition of a chemical bond?
8. Describe two examples of how chemical bonds can form.
9. What does an electron