Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the combining of atoms to form molecules or ionic compounds?

Answer 1

chemical bonding

Question 2

What is an interaction that holds atoms or ionic compounds?

Answer 2

chemical bond

Question 3

What is an electron that is found in the outermost shell of an atom and that determines the atom’s

Answer 3

valence electrons

Question 4

What is a bond that forms when electrons are transferred from one atom to another, which results in a positive ion and a negative ion?

Answer 4

ionic bond

Question 5

What is a charged particle that forms an atom or group of atoms gains or loses one or more electrons?

Answer 5

an ion

Question 6

What is the regular pattern in which a crystal is arranged?

Answer 6

crystal lattice

Question 7

What is a bond that forms when atoms share one or more electrons?

Answer 7

covalent bond

Question 8

What is the smallest unit of a substance that keeps all of the physical and chemical properties of that substance?

Answer 8

a molecule

Question 9

What is a bond formed by the attraction between positively charged ions and the electrons around them?

Answer 9

a metallic bond