2. GET TO KNOW NUCLEAR

3. Categories 1000 800 600 400 200 Final Jeopardy ENERGY NUCLEAR FISSION RADIATION DETECTION & PROTECTION HALF-LIFE & MEDICAL GET TO KNOW NUCLEAR

4. Categories Your career as an engineer, scientist, medical doctor or technician, government employee can all begin with what? Get to Know Nuclear 200 Points

5. Categories What is nuclear science? Get to Know Nuclear 200 Points

6. Categories These are all part of this spectrum: microwaves, visible light, UV light, gamma rays, X-rays. Get to Know Nuclear 400 Points

7. Categories What is the electromagnetic spectrum? Get to Know Nuclear 400 Points

8. Categories The type of electromagnetic radiation without enough energy to release an electron (will not ionize). Get to Know Nuclear 600 Points

9. Categories What is non-ionizing radiation? Get to Know Nuclear 600 Points

10. Categories The type of electromagnetic radiation with enough energy to release an electron (will ionize). Get to Know Nuclear 800 Points

11. Categories What is ionizing radiation? Get to Know Nuclear 800 Points

12. Categories The approximate percentage of Nuclear Power generated in the USA? Get to Know Nuclear 1000 Points

13. Categories What is 20%? Get to Know Nuclear 1000 Points

14. Categories These are the components: protons, neutrons and electrons. Half-Life & Medical 200 Points

15. Categories What are the components of an atom? Half-Life & Medical 200 Points

16. Categories This is an element with the same atomic number (same number of protons) but with different number of neutrons. Half-Life & Medical 400 Points

17. Categories What is an isotope? Half-Life & Medical 400 Points

18. Categories This term describes the amount of time it takes for the amount of the isotope to decay by half. Half-Life & Medical 600 Points

19. Categories What is half-life? Half-Life & Medical 600 Points

20. Categories This term describes the ability to measure how old a fossil is by evaluating the amount of the isotope Carbon 14 remaining. Half-Life & Medical 800 Points

21. Categories What is carbon dating? Half-Life & Medical 800 Points

22. Categories This group of medical equipment includes: X-Ray, CT Scan, Computed Tomography or Nuclear Medicine (not Ultrasound, MRI- Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Half-Life & Medical 1000 Points

23. Categories What is ionizing radiation medical equipment? Half-Life & Medical 1000 Points

24. Categories These are the two sources of radiation. Radiation Detection & Protection 200 Points

25. Categories What are man-made and natural radiation? Radiation Detection & Protection 200 Points

26. Categories Alpha, beta and gamma Radiation Detection & Protection 400 Points

27. Categories What are 3 types of radiation? Radiation Detection & Protection 400 Points

28. Categories This is energy traveling in the form of particles or waves. Radiation Detection & Protection 600 Points

29. Categories What is Radiation? Radiation Detection & Protection 600 Points

30. Categories Time, distance and shielding. Radiation Detection & Protection 800 Points

31. Categories How do we protect ourselves from radiation? Radiation Detection & Protection 800 Points

32. Categories Geiger counter or dosimeter. Radiation Detection & Protection 1000 Points

33. Categories How do we measure radiation? Radiation Detection & Protection 1000 Points

34. Categories Everything is made up of these. Nuclear Fission 200 Points

35. Categories What are atoms? Nuclear Fission 200 Points

36. Categories This is located at the center of the atom. Nuclear Fission 400 Points

37. Categories What is the nucleus? Nuclear Fission 400 Points

38. Categories This is the function of a control rod. Nuclear Fission 600 Points

39. Categories What is used to stop the fission reaction? Nuclear Fission 600 Points

40. Categories This term describes neutrons produced by fission that to go on to cause more fission reactions. Nuclear Fission 800 Points

41. Categories What is a chain reaction? Nuclear Fission 800 Points

42. Categories The type of nuclear reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits into two lighter nuclei. Nuclear Fission 1000 Points

43. Categories What is nuclear fission? Nuclear Fission 1000 Points

44. Categories This is one of many sources that generates electricity. Energy 200 Points

45. Categories What is nuclear? (Or: coal, natural gas, hydroelectric, wind generators, solar energy, tidal power, and geothermal) Energy 200 Points

46. Categories This is the flow of electrons over time. Energy 400 Points

47. Categories What is electricity? Energy 400 Points

48. Categories Stored energy that is ready to be used and changed into another form. Energy 600 Points

49. Categories What is a potential energy? Energy 600 Points

50. Categories The energy of motion, whether waves, wind, atoms, electrons or objects, like a swing or a jump rope. Energy 800 Points

51. Categories What is kinetic energy? Energy 800 Points

52. Categories This is how a 60 Watt light bulbs lights up. Energy 1000 Points

53. Categories What process describes how a power plant generates electricity, which is transmitted over wires (through transformers) and to a light bulb in your house? Energy 1000 Points

54. Categories The Category is: Nuclear Energy

55. Categories The United States’ nuclear reactors use fuel pellets that are made from this.

56. Categories What is uranium?

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