1. RED What is chemical bonding? What is a chemical bond?
Are the properties of substances formed by chemical bonding the same as the properties of the elements that formed them? Why?
What part of the atom determines if a substance will bond?
How do you determine the number of protons and electrons in an atom?
Are atoms neutral or do they have a charge? Why?
How do you determine if an atom will chemically bond?
How do you determine the number of valence electrons in an atom?

2. PURPLE How do you determine the number of energy levels in an atom?
What is the formula to determine how many electrons an energy level will hold?
Why do atoms chemically bond?
What elements form bonds easily (very reactive)?
What elements do not typically form bonds?
When is an energy level considered stable?
What types of atoms do ionic bonds form between?

3. ORANGE What happens to electrons in ionic bonds?
What holds ionic bonds together?
What determines if an atom should gain or lose electrons?
What type of atoms tend to lose electrons? What kind of ion is formed?
What type of atoms tend to gain electrons? What type of ion is formed?
How do you determine the charge of an ion?
How do you name negative ions? Give an example. (hint: suffix)
What is the charge on an ionic compound?

4. BLUE What are the properties of ionic compounds?
What are examples of ionic compounds?
What is a crystal lattice?
What does the prefix co- mean?
What types of atoms do covalent bonds form between?
What happens to electrons in covalent bonds? Why?
What are the properties of covalent bonds?
What are examples of covalently bonded compounds?

5. BROWN What is a molecule?
How are atoms and molecules different? How are they the same?
What is a diatomic element (define)?
What are the seven diatomic elements?
What do electron dot diagrams show?
How do you make an electron dot diagram for an atom of Carbon?
How do you make an electron dot diagram for a molecule of water?
What type of atoms do metallic bonds form between?

6. YELLOW What happens to electrons in metallic bonds? Why?
What are the properties of metallic bonds?
What are examples of metallically bonded materials?
What is the energy called when an electron is lost?
What is the charge of an ion that has 14 protons and 12 electrons?
What is the charge an ion that has 12 protons and 14 electrons?
What has to happen with energy in order for an ionic bond to happen?
What is an ion?

7. PINK What is oxidation state?
What is the common suffix used in an ionic compound?
What type of atom comes first when naming ionic compounds?
What is the name of this compound? Na2O
Bond Lithium and Oxygen using oxidation state. What is the oxidation state of each, the formula, and what would it be named?

8. Electron Dot Diagram Practice
PF5
CS2
BrO3-
NH4+
SCl4
BrF5
BF3
SCl6
PH3