Because they sometimes work together as a group or do something good for each other as a family
The answer is ethnic group that's funny this is on my homework
Dreadnought, or Battleshiphttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_large_warship_called
Potassium and Hydrogen
The family that rules a country is called a "dynasty."
A group of hourses are called gaggle or flock
Sulfur is in group 16 of the periodic table, in the chalcogen family sometimes called the oxygen family.
Group 7A is the Halogen group. It is sometimes also called Group 17, depending on how the periodic table is labeled.
Nitrogen is in the "Niter Family". I've never heard it called that. Sometimes called the nitrogen family and sometimes the pnictogens. The family is nitrogen N, Phosphorus P, Arsenic As, Antimony Sb and Bismuth Bi commonly called group 15 of the periodic table which used to be called either Va or Vb.
In the Periodic Table of Elements, the family that contains silver is Group 11, previously called Group IB. It is sometimes informally called the coinage metals or the copper family. This group contains the following elements:coppersilvergoldroentgenium - a synthetic radioactive element first synthesized in 1994
Because the data set is sometimes called a group
A group of jellyfish is called a "smack".FlutherA group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm.A group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm.
A group of people who are related are known as a family.
Sulfur is in the 16th group/family on the Periodic Table which is called Chalcogen.
The elements in Group 1 are also known as alkali metals, or they are sometimes referred to as the lithium family. Answer: Alkali Metals or Lithium Family
Because the data set is sometimes called a group
nuclear family
A group of people descended from the same ancestor is a family or a bunch of relatives. Sometimes, if more organized, they may be called a clan or a tribe.