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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which type of radiation has the greatest penetrating power?AlphaBetaGammaMicrowaves
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The nuclear process occurring at a nuclear power plant.Nuclear fusionNuclear fissionCombustionMultiplication
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which nuclear process is shown in the picture?fissionfusionalpha decaybeta decay
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What happens to the atomic number during alpha decay?The atomic number decreases by 4The atomic number increases by 1The atomic number decreases by 2.The atomic number stays the same.
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Arrange in order of increasing ability to penetrate matter.Beta, gamma, alphaAlpha, gamma, betaGamma, beta, alphaAlpha, beta, gamma
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is not true about fission reactions at power plants?They are exothermicThey produce a lot of energyThey are uncontrolled and fastThey are slow and controlled
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.During fission, some of the nuclear mass is converted intoenergyheavier nucleicritical massprotons
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following is a disadvantage of nuclear energy as a power source?Nuclear energy produces less energy than the burning coalNuclear energy produces air pollutionNuclear waste must be safely storedThe fuel source is very limited
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Balance the following equation:
146C --> 0-1e + ________145B146C147N42He - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.
In the symbol 167N what the 7 stand for?
Mass number
Atomic number
Atomic mass
Number of neutrons
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Complete the nuclear equation and determine the type of decay that is occurring in this reaction.alphabetagammanone
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.If we start off with element 24X50 after an alpha decay we get another element Y that looks like22Y5022Y4620Y4826Y54
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Two or more nuclei combine to form one larger nucleus in the process of nuclear _____.FusionFissionTracingDecay
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which produces more energy--nuclear fission or nuclear fusion?FusionFissionThey produce the same amountIt depends on the elements used
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.This is an example of...Fission reactionFusion reactionDecomposition reactionCombustion
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What does it mean when an element is radioactive?atom emits radiationnucei unstable due to uneven p to n rationuclei changes to become stableall of the above
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The force that holds the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom is called __________.Strong forcemagnetic forcecentripetal forceelectrostatic force
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the missing isotope that will balance the following nuclear equation?
94Be + 11H → _____ + 42He105B105Ne63Li63C - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Has the symbolAlphaBetaGammaelectron
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Has the symbolAlphaBetaGammaproton
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Has the symbolAlphaBetaGammaneutron
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which type of nuclear radiation is being emitted here?AlphaBetaGammanone
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In the event of a nuclear explosion where would be the safest place to hide?
Paper house
Log cabin
Thick concrete building in the basement
Building with windows
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What type of reaction can be controlled to produce great amounts of energy at the expense of toxic waste?
Fusion
Fission
Fishin
Feasion