Uranium Twisting the Dragons Tail Quiz

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

• Pierre Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Henri Becquerel

• Marie Curie

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

• 1945

• 1960

• 1939

• 1950

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

• Micrograms

• Microsieverts

• Nanometers

• Milliliters

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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What is the name of the element that is extracted from uranium and found to be even more unstable and active than uranium?

• Thorium

• Neptunium

• Radium

• Plutonium

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

• Australia

• Paris

• Czech Republic

• Joachimsthal

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

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

• Uraninite

• Pitchblende

• Silverite

• Goldstone

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8