2. What is radiation?

3. Categories 1000 800 600 400 200 Final Jeopardy Calculations Reaction Examples Particles Vocabulary

4. Categories a heavy nucleus splits into smaller, more-stable nuclei Vocabulary 200 Points

5. Categories What is fission? Vocabulary 200 Points

6. Categories light-mass nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus Vocabulary 400 Points

7. Categories What is fusion? Vocabulary 400 Points

8. Categories a change in the identity of a nucleus as a result of a change in the number of protons Vocabulary 600 Points

9. Categories What is transmutation? Vocabulary 600 Points

10. Categories the difference in the calculated and actual mass of an atom Vocabulary 800 Points

11. Categories What is the mass defect? Vocabulary 800 Points

12. Categories a stable nuclei cluster over a range of neutron to proton ratios Vocabulary 1000 Points

13. Categories What is the band of stability? Vocabulary 1000 Points

14. Categories Particles 200 Points

15. Categories What is an alpha particle? Particles 200 Points

16. Categories Particles 400 Points

17. Categories What is a beta particle? Particles 400 Points

18. Categories Particles 600 Points

19. Categories What is a positron? Particles 600 Points

20. Categories Particles 800 Points

21. Categories What is a neutron? Particles 800 Points

22. Categories Particles 1000 Points

23. Categories What is a gamma ray? Particles 1000 Points

24. Categories film badges, scintillation counters, Geiger-Müller counters Examples 200 Points

25. Categories What are examples of radiation detectors? Examples 200 Points

26. Categories alpha, beta, positron Examples 400 Points

27. Categories What are examples of radioactive decays? Examples 400 Points

28. Categories solar, wind, nuclear Examples 600 Points

29. Categories What are examples of sources of electricity? Examples 600 Points

30. Categories plutonium, californium, einsteinium Examples 800 Points

31. Categories What are examples of transuranium elements? Examples 800 Points

32. Categories Comanche Peak, South Texas Project Examples 1000 Points

33. Categories What are examples of nuclear plants in Texas? Examples 1000 Points

34. Categories Reactions 200 Points

35. Categories What is alpha decay? Reactions 200 Points

36. Categories Reactions 400 Points

37. Categories What is beta decay? Reactions 400 Points

38. Categories Reactions 600 Points

39. Categories What is electron capture? Reactions 600 Points

40. Categories Reactions 800 Points

41. Categories What is positron emission? Reactions 800 Points

42. Categories Reactions 1000 Points

43. Categories What is positron emission? Reactions 1000 Points

44. Categories The half-life of cobalt-60 is 10.47 minutes. How many milligrams of cobalt-60 remains after 104.7 minutes if you start with 10.0 mg? Calculations 200 Points

45. Categories What is 0.00977 mg? Calculations 200 Points

46. Categories The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,110 years. How many milligrams of the original 100. g sample remain after 96,440 years? Calculations 400 Points

47. Categories What is 6250 milligrams? Calculations 400 Points

48. Categories Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8.07 days. If you let a 10.0 kg sample decay for 3.5 weeks, how many grams will remain? Calculations 600 Points

49. Categories What is 1200 grams? Calculations 600 Points

50. Categories The half-life of uranium-238 is 4.46x10 9 years. If 5.28x10 7 years have passed, how many milligrams will remain from a 27.25 centigram sample? Calculations 800 Points

51. Categories What is 2.70x10 -2 milligrams? Calculations 800 Points

52. Categories The half-life of protactinium-234 is 6.69 hours. What fraction of a given amount remains after 26.67 hours? Calculations 1000 Points

53. Categories What is 1/16? Calculations 1000 Points

54. Categories The Category is: Nuclear Decay

55. Write the following reactions: beta decay of cesium-137 alpha decay of francium-220

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