nuclear physics

What happens to the nucleus of an atom during fission?

• it breaks apart

• it gets put together

• nothing

• it laughs because that nucleon is so small.

Even though it is so tiny that there are 100,000,000 of them in your baby finger nail, the energy that comes out of breaking them apart is __________________ more than the energy we used to pull a piece of donut apart.

• 7,000,000 times

• 700,000,000 dollars

• a hundred times

• Three times more

Match the following

• plutonium

• Pu239

• reactions that take atoms apart

• fission

• uranium

• U238

• reaction that puts atoms together

• nucleons

• protons and neutrons

• fusion

Which ones are nucleons? Choose 2

• protons

• neutrons

• electrons

• muons

What are the structures with steam coming out of them called?

• cooling towers

• heating towers

• reactor building

• parking deck

What are the particles in the nucleus called?

• nucleons

• electrons

• radons

• uraniums

The protons in the nucleus all have the...

• same charges so repel each other

• different charges, so cling to each other

• no charges

• highest mass

Another version of the same atom, but with more neutrons is called an _________ of that element.stope

• isotope

• twinnie

• nucleus

• neuclon

The time it takes for half of the of amount of racioactive material to decay is called.

• half-life

• quarter-life

• vegan-life

• too many years

The type of dating done to find out how old a dinosaur bone is called:

• carbon 14 dating

• uranium dating

• teen dating

• count the rings