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Recitation 2 3rd Quarter Week 1&2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Iodine-131 is an isotope of iodine that emits radiation and is used for medical purposes. What is the atomic number of the protons and neutrons of this radioactive isotope, respectively?

a)

53 and 131

b)

131 and 53

c)

53 and 78

d)

78 and 53

2.

In 1985, he discovered the X-ray through his cathode ray tube experiment.

a)

Antoine Henri Becquerel

b)

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Ernest Rutherford

3.

In 1896, Antoine Henri Becquerel unintentionally discovered radioactivity with the idea of phosphorescence and his photographic plate experiment with the use of the element, ________.

a)

radium

b)

polonium

c)

thorium

d)

uranium

4.

Gamma ray was discovered by Paul Ulrich Villard while studying the radiation emanating from Radium. This happened in ______.

a)

1900

b)

1905

c)

1986

d)

1989

5.

The term radioactivity was actually coined by ___________.

a)

Pierre Curie

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Antoine Henri Becquerel

d)

Ernest Rutherford

6.

In 1899, Ernest Rutherford showed that radioactive substances emit more than one kind of radiation. He named the less-penetrating emanations _______ and the more-powerful ones ______.

a)

beta rays; alpha rays

b)

alpha rays; gamma rays

c)

gamma rays; beta rays

d)

alpha rays; beta rays

7.

What makes something radioactive?

a)

elements with an atomic number above 81

b)

contaminated sewage

c)

an unstable nucleus

d)

It decays over time

8.

_______________ is the process by which unstable atoms emit radiation until they become stable.

a)

Radiation

b)

Radioactive Decay

c)

Chemical Reaction

d)

Isotopes

9.

In order of most to least penetrating radiation we have __________.

a)

Alpha , Beta,  Gamma

b)

Gamma, Beta, Alpha

c)

Beta , Gamma , Alpha

d)

Gamma, Alpha, Beta

10.

Which type of radiation releases an electron?

a)

Alpha radiation

b)

Gamma radiation

c)

Beta radiation

d)

Theta radiation

11.

What particle is released when an unstable isotope undergoes alpha radiation?

a)

a helium nucleus

b)

a photon of light

c)

an electron

d)

a neutron

12.

Which type of nuclear radiation can be stopped by 60cm aluminum or 7cm of lead?

a)

Alpha

b)

Beta

c)

Gamma

d)

All of them

13.

It is a method of inducing a nuclear reaction wherein a stable isotope are bombarded with high-speed particles such as proton and electrons.

a)

Radioactivity

b)

Natural Radioactivity

c)

Artificial Radioactivity

d)

Either Natural or Artificial Radioactivity

14.

Artificial radioactivity was discovered by husband and wife, Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie in 1934.  They made the exciting and important observation that the positrons which was emitted when _______ was bombarded with alpha particles from Po continued to be emitted after the source of alpha particles was removed.

a)

Boron

b)

Aluminum

c)

Uranium

d)

Iodine

15.

Rutherford was also the first to discover artificially induced radioactivity

Through the bombardment of alpha particles against nuclei of N-14, Rutherford produced ______.

a)

O-17

b)

O-18

c)

O-19

d)

O-20