Name: __________________________________________ Period: ___ Date: _________

 

Dekalb Reads Assignment 7.1 A

Nuclear Radiation

Read pages 220-222 and answer the following questions

 

1.      In recent years there has been concern about _______________.

2.      Define radioactivity.

3.      Radio active materials have _________________

4.      What do the radioactive nuclei emit or release?

5.      What happens after the changes in the nucleus?

6.      Transformation of an element in to a different isotope or formation of an entirely different element is called _________________

7.      Define isotope.

8.      Define nuclear radiation.

9.      How many types of nuclear radiation are there? What are they?

10.  The symbol of Alpha particles is _______ , Beta particle is _______, Gamma particle is ____  and that of neutron is ________.

11.  Which of the radiation has no mass?

12.  The interaction of nuclear radiation with matter depends on _____________.

13.  Name a naturally occurring radioactive element.

14.  What does Uranium-238 emit when it undergoes nuclear decay?

15.  Who named the Alpha rays?

16.  Define alpha particle.

17.  Why Alpha particles can not pass through matter?

18.  What happens when Alpha particles pass through matter?

19.  Define Beta particle.

20.  Name the nuclear radiation that travels farther through matter?

21.  Beta particles are _________________________ .

22.  Neutrons decay to form ___________________ and ______________.

23.  Beta particles are stopped by _______________ or _______________ .

24.  What is the similarity between alpha and beta particles.

25.  When do beta particles lose energy.

26.  Who isolated radium and when?

27.  Define gamma ray.

28.  How does gamma ray differ from Alpha and Beta particles?

29.  Gamma rays can go through up to _____________ or ________________.

30.  Why is gamma ray a greater danger to health?

31.  Define “Neutron emission”?

32.  What is required to stop most fast neutrons?

 

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