The answer is true. Gravity is the force that keeps us all on the ground.
"The position of each element in the table gives important information about its structure, properties, and behavior in chemical reactions. Specifically, an element's position in the periodic table helps you figure out its electron configuration, how the electrons are organized around the nucleus."
It is a chemical change. I always think of a chemical/physical change as if you could reverse it back as it started off, for example if you stepped on a can you can reverse the can back probably not exactly like it was before but you can still reverse it so this would be a physical change, and if you baked a pizza you could not reverse the dough and everything else back.