Nuclear Basics
Particles and Decay
Fission and Fusion
100
Part of the atom involved in a nuclear reaction.
What is the nucleus?
100
A high-energy electron.
What is a beta particle?
100
The more dangerous form of nuclear reaction.
What is nuclear fission?
200
The defining property of an element
What is the proton?
200
X-rays fall under these.
What are gamma rays?
200
Where fusion occurs.
What is the sun (stars)?
300
What changes when you change the number of neutrons.
What is the atomic mass?
300
Level of penetration from greatest to least.
What is gamma, beta, alpha particles?
300
Used to initiate the fission chain reaction.
What is neutrons?
400
The state that atoms like to exist in.
What is stable?
400
What doctors use to block radioactive particles.
What is lead?
400
Fusion in the sun converts hydrogen into this element.
What is helium?
500
Why isotopes become unstable.
What is an excess of protons or neutrons?
500
What is beta-minus decay?
500
Where nuclear fission takes place.
What is a nuclear reactor/power plant?