Radioactivity Webquest

Place answers on a separate sheet of paper.

Answer neatly and in complete sentences. Number your answers.
Go to websites on radioactivity:
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078664187/student_view0/chapter25/web_links.html

Click on How Nuclear radiation works

Explore the vocabulary links on this page to find the answers to the following questions.

1. Who discovered the X-ray?

2. How does the X-ray work?
3. What is nuclear fission?
4. What is nuclear fusion?
5. How does a nuclear bomb work?
6. How is nuclear power generated?
7. Carbon-14 dating can be used to determine the age of objects up to ____________ years old.

Go back to website on radioactivity

Go to Irradiated Food

8. How is food irradiated?

9. Why is food irradiated?
10. What are the disadvantages to irradiating food?
11. How do you know if our food has been irradiated?

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Go to Irradiated mail

11. When did mail irradiation start?

12. Why irradiate mail?

Go back to websites on radioactivity

Go to Radon and the risks

13. What kinds of dangers are associated with radon?

Go to http://www2.waterforduhs.k12.wi.us/staffweb/hendricks/Practical%20Chemistry/Radioactivity/radioactivity.htm

Go to radiation Therapy
Under howstuffworks
Click on Radiation therapy

14. What makes cancer cells different from other body cells?
15. How does radiation affect cancer cells?
16. What are the two types of radiation therapy?
17. How do they work?
18. Name 3 substances commonly used for radiation therapy.

Go back to howstuffworks
Click on radiation sickness

19. What kind of symptoms can radiation sickness cause?

20. Which kind of radiation causes radiation sickness?
21. If you were exposed to 150,000 rads of radiation would you be sick?
22. How might you treat someone who has been exposed to radiation?