1. Name ______________________________________________ Date _______________
Chapter 7 Study Guide
Ionic and Metallic Bonding
• What is a valence electron? What is a core electron?
• How do you determine how many valence electrons an element has by looking at its
position on the periodic table?
• Know how to write electron dot diagrams for elements and their ions
• What is the octet rule?
• Know how many electrons need to be gained or lost to satisfy the octet rule.
• What kinds of ions do metals form? How do they form them?
• How do the electron configurations of ions compare to noble gas electron
configurations?
• What forms ionic bonds?
• What types of elements are able to form ionic bonds?
• Know how to write the formula unit for an ionic compound
• What must the overall charge of an ionic compound be in a formula unit?
• What are the 3 properties of ionic compounds?

2. • When do ionic compounds conduct electricity?
• What does it mean for metals to be malleable?
• What does it mean for metals to be ductile?
• Besides metals being malleable and ductile, what are two other properties that metals
have?
• Using the metallic bonding theory, why do metals have the properties that they do?
• How are atoms arranged in metallic solids?
• Why is it possible to bend metals but not ionic crystals?
• What are alloys? Why are alloys important?