WorksheetsGCSE Radiation uses - Mr Blow
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of these is a use of alpha radiation?
a)
Sterilising food
b)
Smoke detectors
c)
Monitoring paper thickness
d)
Industrial tracers
2.
Radioactive tracers are useful in ____.
a)
calculating the ages of fossils
b)
fueling nuclear reactions
c)
determining medical problems
d)
treating brain tumors
3.
Where does radioactivity have application in our lives?
a)
Medicine
b)
Energy (electricity)
c)
Agriculture
d)
All of the above
4.
Radioactive dating uses the half-life of different radioactive materials to provide information about the _______ of a sample.
a)
purity
b)
age
c)
radioactivity
d)
nuclear stability
5.
What is a use of radioactive materials in medicine?
a)
oxygen masks
b)
antibiotics
c)
tracers
d)
heat monitors
6.
How is radiation used to treat cancer?
a)
Radiation is used to stimulate the growth of cancer cells
b)
Cancer cells are bombarded with radiation and become inactive
c)
Cancer cells are burned up by radiation
d)
Radiation melts cancer cells
7.
Nuclear medicine (like radiation used in cancer treatment) is used to both diagnose and treat different diseases.
a)
True
b)
False
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