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Nuclear Chem Vocab

Authored by Jill Wright

Science, Chemistry, Physics

7th - 9th Grade

NGSS covered

Used 21+ times

Nuclear Chem Vocab
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a high-mass positively charged particle, emitted during radioactive decay made up of two protons and two neutrons; a helium nucleus.

Alpha particle
Beta Particle
Gamma Ray
Omicron Particle

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

an electron emitted during nuclear decay when a neutron changes into a proton.

Beta particle
Alpha Particle
Gamma Ray
Delta ray

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A nuclear fission process in which neutrons produced by fission trigger more fissions in a continuous way.

Chain reaction
Nuclear decay
Fission
Fusion

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Any spontaneous change in the particle makeup and/or total energy of the nucleus of an unstable atom.

Nuclear decay
Chain reaction
gamma ray
Fusion

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The splitting of a large nucleus into two smaller nuclei and several free neutrons

Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fusion
Radioactivity
Beta particle

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The violent joining of two small nuclei together to form a larger one under extremely energetic conditions.

Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear Fission
Chain reaction
Nuclear explosion

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

a photon of energy in the highest frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Gamma ray
Alpha particle
Beta particle
Omega ray

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

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