Vocabulary
Radioactive Decay
Half-life
Nuclear Power
Radioactive Superheroes
100
The process by which an unstable nucleus gives off nuclear radiation.
What is radioactivity?
100
This is a particle that can be either an electron or positron that is given off during radioactive decay.
What is beta decay?
100
This is the most common type of radioactive dating method used on living things.
What is carbon-14 dating?
100
This is the process that today's nuclear power plants create energy in the core.
What is nuclear fission?
100
Bitten by a spider.
Who is Spiderman?
200
The sum of the numbers of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom.
What is mass number or atomic mass?
200
This is a particle that has two protons and two neutrons and is given off during a type of radioactive decay.
What is helium or alpha particle?
200
A sample of carbon-14 is taken from a tree, and originally contains 160 carbon-14 atoms. How many carbon-14 atoms would remain after three half-lives?
What is 20?
200
This is the term that refers to a continuous series of nuclear fission reactions.
What is a nuclear chain reaction?
200
Smash!
Who is The Hulk?
300
This is an atom that has the same number of protons as other atoms but a different number of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
300
Energy is also given off during alpha and beta decay, and some of this energy is known as what ray?
What is a gamma ray?
300
This is a dating method used on rocks that formed from cooled lava.
What is uranium-238?
300
This is the particle that causes the nucleus of a uranium-235 atom to split.
What is a neutron?
300
Fights crime completely blind.
Who is Daredevil?
400
The splitting of the nucleus of a large atom into two or more fragments.
What is nuclear fission?
400
This type of particle is only blocked by very dense objects.
What is a gamma ray?
400
This is the atom that carbon-14 turns into as it undergoes radioactive decay.
What is nitrogen-14?
400
This state of matter is used when creating a fusion process.
What is plasma?
400
This is the name of four crime fighters who all were exposed to radiation in space.
Who are The Fantastic Four?
500
This is a particle released during radioactive decay that cannot penetrate a sheet of paper, but is highly dangerous if it enters the body.
What is an alpha particle?
500
This is a name for a radioactive element that is injected into the body, or into a sheet of metal, to trace any abnormalities.
What is a tracer?
500
This is the length of time for one half-life to occur for a carbon-14 sample.
What is 5730 years?
500
This is the name of the Russian nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
500
This is the alter ego of Jean Grey.
What is Phoenix?
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