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Year 11 Science — Metals, non-metals and the reactivity series

Rank metals by the activity series, work out the ion a metal or non-metal forms from its electron shells, and say how each band of the series is won from its ore and kept from corroding.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Sort each metal by how the chapter says it is won from the earth.

    Groups: Found in the native state · Reduction using carbon · Electrolysis of the molten compound

    • Zinc
    • Silver
    • Sodium
    • Gold
    • Iron
    • Aluminium

  2. 2.Match each description to the term the chapter gives it.

    • A mineral rich enough to extract the metal from at a profit
    • The soil and sand that come up with the ore
    • Heating a sulphide ore strongly in plenty of air
    • Heating a carbonate ore strongly in limited air
    • The insoluble leavings that settle under the anode
    • Ore
    • Gangue
    • Anode mud
    • Roasting
    • Calcination

  3. 3.Aluminium oxide reacts with acids and with bases alike, giving a salt and water either way. What one word describes an oxide that does this?

  4. 4.Put these metals in the activity series' own order, from the most reactive down, starting with "Potassium".

    • Calcium
    • Copper
    • Potassium
    • Magnesium
    • Gold
    • Iron
    • Zinc

  5. 5.A metal does not react with cold water or hot water, but does react with steam to give an oxide and hydrogen. Which of these behaves that way?

    • a) Gold
    • b) Iron
    • c) Calcium
    • d) Potassium

  6. 6.Iron oxide is lit with aluminium powder and iron runs out molten. What is this reaction used for?

    • a) Refining copper
    • b) Joining railway tracks and cracked machine parts
    • c) Galvanising sheets of steel
    • d) Turning a sulphide ore into an oxide

  7. 7.Sort each of these elements as the chapter classifies it.

    Groups: Metal · Non-metal

    • Bromine
    • Mercury
    • Sodium
    • Iodine
    • Graphite
    • Sulphur

  8. 8.A cell for refining copper is drawn below, with the two plates hanging in the solution and the battery marked. Tap the plate the pure copper builds up on.

    Write the number of the part.

    12

Answer key — Year 11 Science — Metals, non-metals and the reactivity series

  1. 1. Gold → Found in the native state; Silver → Found in the native state; Zinc → Reduction using carbon; Iron → Reduction using carbon; Sodium → Electrolysis of the molten compound; Aluminium → Electrolysis of the molten compound
  2. 2. A mineral rich enough to extract the metal from at a profit → Ore; The soil and sand that come up with the ore → Gangue; Heating a sulphide ore strongly in plenty of air → Roasting; Heating a carbonate ore strongly in limited air → Calcination; The insoluble leavings that settle under the anode → Anode mud
  3. 3. amphoteric
  4. 4. 1. Potassium 2. Calcium 3. Magnesium 4. Zinc 5. Iron 6. Copper 7. Gold
  5. 5. b) Iron
  6. 6. b) Joining railway tracks and cracked machine parts
  7. 7. Mercury → Metal; Sodium → Metal; Iodine → Non-metal; Bromine → Non-metal; Graphite → Non-metal; Sulphur → Non-metal
  8. 8. 2 — The plate wired to the negative terminal