Half Life & Radioactive Decay
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Hilary Stott
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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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