Science Vocabulary

Which of these is a use of alpha radiation?

• Sterilising food

• Smoke detectors

• Monitoring paper thickness

• Industrial tracers

For which of the following problems would a scientist most likely use carbon-14? 

• to calculate the age of the Earth's oldest rocks
• to calculate the age of a piece of bone 
• to identify the elements that make up a rock 
• to identify the elements that make up a bone

Radioactive tracers are useful in ____.

• calculating the ages of fossils 
• fueling nuclear reactions 
• determining medical problems 
• treating brain tumors 

The major drawback to nuclear fission reactors is the difficulty of achieving safe disposal of radioactive waste products.

• true
• false

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A benefit to using nuclear fission power is that it:

• supplies a lot of electricity
• conserves organic fuels, like oil, coal, and wood
• eliminates huge quantities of sulfur dioxides, which pollute our air
• all of the choices

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Where does radioactivity have application in our lives?

• Medicine
• Energy (electricity)
• Agriculture
• All of the above

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Name the instrument used to detect radioactivity.

• voltmeter
• ohmeter
• seismograph
• geiger counter

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a...

• Golden Globe
• Nobel Prize
• Oscar
•  Emmy Award

Nuclear power uses ____ for fuel.

• steel
• coal
• uranium
• hydrogen

Radioactive dating uses the half-life of different radioactive materials to provide information about the _______ of a sample.

• purity

• age

• radioactivity

• nuclear stability

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