Half Life & Radioactive Decay

Half Life & Radioactive Decay

9th - 12th Grade

31 Qs

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Half Life & Radioactive Decay

Half Life & Radioactive Decay

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is half-life?

a number that is always the same.

50% of the years it takes for something to decay 50%

the number of years old a fossil might be.

the time it takes for one half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

True/False: It does NOT matter how much of a substance there is; the half-life of that substance always remains the same.

True

False; does

False; sometimes

3.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The half-life of Carbon-14 is _____ years.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The substance we begin with in radioactive decay is the:

parent material

daughter product

stable offspring

nucleus

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The substance we end with in radioactive decay is the:

parent material

daughter product

stable offspring

nucleus

6.

MATCH QUESTION

3 mins • 4 pts

Match the following parent isotopes to their daughter products.

**These are all ALPHA decay.

Protactinium-237

Americium-241

Thorium-234

Thorium-232

Radon-228

Radium-223

Radon-219

Uranium-238

7.

MATCH QUESTION

3 mins • 4 pts

Match the following parent isotopes to their daughter products.

**These are all BETA decay.

Argon-40

Technetium-99

Strontium-87

Rubidium-87

Ruthenium-99

Carbon-14

Nitrogen-14

Potassium-40

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