Nuclear Weapons
Types of Energy
Radioactive Decay
Atoms
Stars
Nuclear Energy
100
The director of Los Alamos National Lab during the early 1940s
Who is Oppenheimer?
100
The type of energy associated with motion
What is kinetic energy?
100
The heaviest type of particle that can be emitted through alpha, beta, or gamma emission
What is alpha?
100
This tells you the number of protons in an atom
What is the atomic number?
100
The nuclear process that gives energy to stars
What is fusion?
100
The nuclear process through which all nuclear energy is generated in the US today
What is fission?
200
The type of weapon that uses both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
What is a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb?
200
Nuclear energy is a form of ____________________ energy
What is potential (or stored)?
200
The type of emission that increases the atomic number
What is beta?
200
Different isotopes have different numbers of this particle
What is a neutron?
200
All the carbon atoms in your body came from fusion that occurred here
What is the core of a star?
200
The nuclear process that requires higher temperatures
What is fusion?
300
The test where a nuclear weapon was first detonated
What is the Trinity Test?
300
Mechanical energy is conserved as long as there is no _____________________
What is friction and/or air resistance?
300
More radioactive elements have shorter _____________
What is a half-life?
300
These TWO particles add up to tell you the atomic mass of an atom
What are protons and neutrons?
300
The heaviest element that can be formed in the core of a star
What is iron?
300
The nuclear process that leaves radioactive waste as a byproduct
What is fission?
400
The name of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested
What is Tsar Bomba?
400
As long as there is no friction, the sum of these TWO types of energy must stay the same
What are potential and kinetic?
400
Medical tracers do NOT use emissions of this type of particle
What is alpha?
400
Chemical reactions involve interactions between these subatomic particles
What are electrons?
400
Atoms with high atomic numbers formed in these events
What is a supernova?
400
The TWO materials that are used for nuclear fission
What are uranium and plutonium?
500
The physicist who is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb"
Who is Edward Teller?
500
Your muscles store this type of energy and convert it into kinetic in order to move
What is spring/elastic? (will also take chemical)
500
This element was discovered by Marie Curie
What is radium and/or polonium?
500
The most abundant atom in the universe
What is hydrogen?
500
The type of energy that is released to power a supernova
What is gravitational potential energy?
500
The blue glow that surrounds radioactive fuel rods when they're underwater
What is Cherenkov radiation?
600
The name of the most powerful weapon tested in the Marshall Islands
What is Castle Bravo?
600
In a nuclear fusion reaction, nuclear energy is converted into these TWO types of energy
What are thermal and radiant?
600
In this type of emission, the particle emitted has no mass
What is gamma?
600
Protons and neutrons are made of these fundamental particles
What are quarks?
600
A rapidly spinning type of star with the highest densities and strongest magnetic fields in the universe
What are neutron stars? (will also take pulsars)
600
The country that produces the most uranium
What is Kazakhstan?