How many valence electrons do alkaline earth metals have

Explanation:

Alkaline earth metals are the family of metals that belong to group (column) number 2 in the periodic table.

You can tell the number of valence electrons of the representative elements by the number of column: the ones digit is the number of valence electrons.

This is how this works:

Column number   ones digit     number of valence electrons

1                                  1                  1 (alkali metals)

2                                 2                 2 (alkaline earth metals)

13                                3                 3

14                                4                 4

15                                5                 5

16                                6                 6

17                                 7                 7 (halogens)

18                                 8                 8 (noble gases).

Of course, this is consequence of the electron configurations.

periodic trends is an atom that gets larger as the number of electronic shells increase, the radius of atoms increases as you go down a certain group in the periodic table of elements. in general, the size of an atom will decrease as you move from left to right of a certain period.