Activity 2 Trending trends! Directions: Write Increasing or Decreasing on the blank to describe the trends in periodic table in terms of density and melting point. 1. The transition metals, melting point is to the group. as you move down 2. For Group 1 and 2, The melting point is as you move down to the group 3. The noble gases are in melting points down the group. 4. Within a group, density is from top to bottom. 5. The trends in density in the 4th through 7th periods, It is From left to the middle and then from middle to the right.