General Nuclear
The two main types of nuclear decay.
What are alpha and beta decay?
The process that is used to fuel nuclear power plants.
What is nuclear fission?
The particle that is released during alpha decay.
What is a helium nucleus (alpha particle)?
The percentage of an unstable isotope that is left after one half life.
What is 50%?
The name of the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (the first Narnia book) by C.S. Lewis.
What is Aslan?
The two subatomic particles that make up the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
The particle that is released during beta decay.
What is an electron (beta particle)?
The length of a half life if you have 50% of the original sample left after 3 days.
What is 3 days?
The singer of the songs, Roar, Dark Horse and Firework.
Who is Katy Perry?
The third type of decay that is the opposite of beta decay (we talked about it on one worksheet).
What is positron?
What is fusion?
The force that resists nuclear decay (holds the nucleus together).
What is the strong force?
The number of half lives it has been if you have 25% of the original sample left.
What is 2?
The war between the US and Great Britain that took place between 1812 and 1815.
What is The War of 1812?
The term used for the isotope that is left after nuclear decay.
What is daughter isotope?
The type of atom that the sun is fusing together in order to power itself.
What are Hydrogen (into Helium)?
The force that is responsible for all nuclear decay.
What is the weak force?
The age of a sample if a half life is 5 days and it has been 5 half lives.
What is 25 days old?
The composer who did the music for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter.
Who is John Williams?
The word that describes anytime an atom goes from one type of element to another.
What is transmutation?
The amount of uranium required to produce the same amount of energy as 1 million gallons of fuel.
What is a baseball sized piece?
The resulting isotope if an atom of Lead(Pb)-210 underwent alpha decay.
What is Mercury(Hg)-206
The percentage of the original sample that you have after 5 half lives.
What is 3.125%?
The science fiction book that was adapted into two movies (2021 and 2024) starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya. (Part 3 is coming out this December, that one is adapting the sequel)
What is Dune?