Hunting The Elements Video Questions



Hunting The Elements Video Questions Name:

Answer the following questions as you watch the Hunting the Elements video.

1. How much gold is extracted per ton of rock ore?

2. How much does a gold bar weight?

3. How much money is a gold bar worth?

4. What is copper combined with to make bronze?

5. Bronze is an example of an alloy, what do you think alloys are?

6. Why make bells out of bronze instead of copper?

7. What determines what kind of element an atom is?

8. More than 70% of the elements on the periodic table are what?

9. What element is the lightest?

10. What is one of the noble gases?

11. What is a unique property (something special) about noble gases?

12. What type of metal is sodium?

13. What compound do you get when you combine sodium (very dangerous) with chlorine (also very dangerous)?

14. What is cyano-bacteria better known as?

15. What element is created during a fusion reaction?

16. What is the heaviest element that a star can create before going supernova?

17. What is the starting ingredient in glass?

18. What is one of the metals that is combined with the silicon in glass to make extra strong?

19. From what country do almost all of the rare earth metal elements come from?

20. What type of metal is used as the control when testing to see if Samarium metal will repel sharks?

21. What carbon isotope do we think of as “normal carbon”?

22. When a carbon-14 atom undergoes radioactive decay and a neutron turns into a proton, what does the nucleus spit out?

23. What was the name of the atomic bomb that used uranium as its fuel?

You must record at least five really cool/interesting things you learned from the video (None of what you include can be answers to any of the questions above)

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