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Chemistry Scavenger Hunt Answer Key
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Ratio Hunt
Group Member: William Douglas
 * Question 1: What two //recent// television shows made references to the golden ratio?
 * **Answer 1: Sabotage and NUMB3RS**
 * Question 2: What ratio is also a movie title?
 * **Answer 2: Pi**
 * Question 3: Which ratio represents the inclination of one curve or line with respect to another?
 * **Answer 3: Slope**


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The Periodic Table of the Elements
Group Member: Alexander Hoffman
 * Question 1: What two men in the 1860s produced remarkable similar results while working independently on the periodic table?
 * Answer 1: **Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev**
 * Question 2: What happens to the outer-most electrons in an element as you move down the periodic table?
 * Answer 2: **They become less tightly bound to the nucleus**
 * Question 3: According to the periodic table, the atomic structure of Potassium has how many energy levels? [Hint: the atomic symbol of Potassium is "K"]
 * Answer 3: **4**

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The Octet Rule
Group Member: Alexa Nappi
 * If a molecule has a bond order of __ it cannot exist.
 * **0 (Zero)**
 * Do free radicals fulfill the octet rule properly?
 * **No, they are an exception to the Octet Rule.**
 * How many valence electrons make up a full outer orbital?
 * **Eight**

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Units and Measurement
Group Member: Justin Pfleiger
 * Question 1: Scientific Notation uses the powers-of-___ notation?
 * **Answer 1: powers-of-ten notation **
 * Question 2: According to which method should the number 5 be rounded up half of the time and rounded down half the time?
 * **Answer 2:** **method 2**
 * Question 3: Why are metric prefixes used when talking about measurement?
 * **Answer 3: measurements are easier to work with.**

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Atomic Structure
Group Member: Kayla Walter
 * Question 1: [|Who] created a model for the atom that is built up of successive orbital shells of electrons? [Hint try the 1900s]
 * Answer 1: Niels Bohr
 * Question 2: What [|part of an atom] is negatively charged?
 * Answer 2: The electron always has a "-" or negative charge.
 * Question 3: What is another name for an[| electron shell?]
 * Answer 3:The shells can also be called energy levels.