Half Life and Radioactivity

Half Life and Radioactivity

9th Grade

25 Qs

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Half Life and Radioactivity

Half Life and Radioactivity

Assessment

Quiz

Science

9th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-PS1-8, HS-ESS2-6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a Geiger counter?

an instrument that uses sonar to bounce sound waves off the ocean bottom

an instrument that measures vibrations in the ground

an instrument that detects the particles emitted or given off by decaying atoms

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is a half-life?

the time required for one half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay

the time required for one third of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When the radioactive atoms in a sample decay by half...

alpha decay

Beta decay

half-life

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Uranium238 take _________________for one half-life.

5730 years

20 billion

1.65 million

4.5 billion

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is the half-life of the radioactive substance?

50%

25%

5 years

10 years

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Identify the half life of the substance shown in the graph.

4 days

8 days

12 days

16 days

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

After 2 half lives, what percent is the parent isotope?

100%

50%

75%

25%

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

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