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Uranium Twisting the Dragons Tail Quiz

Authored by Mitchell Gordon

Science

12th Grade

NGSS covered

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Uranium Twisting the Dragons Tail Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the physicist who performed the groundbreaking experiment with uranium in Paris?

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Henri Becquerel

Marie Curie

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the element that Marie Curie discovered to be even more unstable and active than uranium?

Plutonium

Radium

Neptunium

Thorium

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In which year was the power of uranium unleashed on the city of Hiroshima in a single bomb?

1945

1960

1939

1950

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the town where the old mining town reinvented itself as a health spa by promoting radium baths?

Joachimsthal

Paris

Czech Republic

Australia

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the rock that contains uranium and was nicknamed 'pitchblende' by the silver miners?

Uraninite

Pitchblende

Silverite

Goldstone

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the unit used to measure nuclear radiation in the text?

Micrograms

Microsieverts

Nanometers

Milliliters

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the physicist who studied the florescence of uranium and discovered its strange energy?

Marie Curie

Albert Einstein

Henri Becquerel

Pierre Curie

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

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