PRACTICE SHEET # 4

CHEMISTRY

Student’s Name: ……………………… MYP Year 4 / Section:( )

Date: ……………………… Teacher: ……………………

Unit Title: Bonding

Refer back to the below command terms if needed:

COMMAND TERM DEFINITION

Give a specific name, value or other brief

State
answer without explanation or calculation.

Give a detailed account including reasons or

Explain
causes.

Provide an answer from a number of

Identify
possibilities.
Q1: Use the patterns in the periodic table to draw orbital diagrams and write the longhand electron
configuration:
Q2: Identify the element described below:
1) Which element contains a full second energy level?
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2) Which element contains three unpaired electrons in its third energy level?
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3) Which element contains five electrons in its 3D orbital. ____________________________

Q3: Which of the following “rules” is being violated in each electron configuration below?Explain
your answer for each :

Hunds Rule (no maximum number of unpaired electrons)

Aufbau Principle (the electrons skip sublevels

and not a ground state configuration)

Pauli Exclusion Principle (3s electrons

arent paired)

Aufbau (electrons skips sublevels so 4s is missing)

Q4: Answer the questions below.
1. What is the difference between an orbit (such as in the Bohr Model) and an electron orbital?
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2. How does the Aufbau Principle work? That is, what does it mean to say that orbitals are filled
from the bottom up (or, top down, depending on the diagram)?
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3. What is Hund’s Rule? That is , how do you go about filling up electron orbitals according to this
rule?
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4. Explain what is meant by Pauli Exclusion Principle.

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5. In the following shorthand notation for the configuration of electrons, tell what each part means:
1s22s2 2p6 3s2 3p64s23d5 ( for example 1s2 means that in the first energy level there two electrons
in an s orbital.)
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6. Why does the 4s orbital get filled with electrons before any electrons can be placed into a 3d
orbitals.
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7. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element He.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.

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8. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element Ne.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.
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9. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element Ar.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.
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10. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element Na.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.
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11. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element Si.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.
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12. Use orbital notation showing the correct ground state electron configuration for the element N.
Also write out the electron configuration in the short-hand notation.

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13. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of B .

14. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of Cl.

15. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of F.

16. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of Ca

17. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of Kr.

18. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of O2-. Notice that this is an anion.
19. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of Na+-. Notice that this is an
cation.

20. Write out the shorthand notation for the electron configuration of Sulfur-. Write its noble gas
notation.

21. Which of the following elements has one or more electrons ‘STOLEN” in order to fill or half fill
or half fill a d subshell -V, Cl, Pd, Li?