Radiation Production

When oxygen gas in the lower stratosphere is struck by this, it splits, leading to the formation of a ozone molecule.

• visible light

• ultraviolet radiation

• infrared

• gamma rays

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What particle is released when an unstable isotope undergoes alpha radiation?

• a helium nucleus

• an electron

• a photon of light

• a neutron

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What occurs when an electron moves from high energy level to a low one?

• Another electron goes from a low energy level to a high one

• The atom moves faster

• Colored light is given off

• This process is not possible

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Which word describes the process of giving out radiation?

• Absorption

• Emission

• Transmission

• Conduction

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Of the following examples of radiation, which ones WILL cause ionization?

• Alpha

• Gamma

• Ultraviolet

• Released Neutron from Fission or Fusion

• Infrared

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emission of energy in the form of EMR or particulate radiation

• Radiation

• Radiography

• Radiology

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The inverse square law describes the relationship between __ and __.

• kVp and exposure

• mAs and exposure

• distance and beam intensity

• kVp and beam intensity

The most penetrating form of radiation is

• Alpha

• Beta

• Gamma

What makes something radioactive?

• elements with an atomic number above 81

• an unstable nucleus

• contaminated sewage

• It decays over time

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Beta particles are...

• negatively charged

• no charge

• back at it again with the white vans

• positively charged