1.

Nuclei of atoms that make up a newborn baby were made in: Ancient stars
2. Compared to the mass of a hydrogen atom, the mass of an oxygen atom is _____ times
greater 16
3. An excited atom decays to its ground state and emits a photon of green light. If instead, the
atoms decays to an intermediate state, then the light emitted could be Red
4. When radium (atomic number 88) emits an alpha particle, the
resulting nucleus has atomic number. 86
5. Which experiences the least electrical force in an electric field Gamma ray
6. The reason a granite block is mostly empty space is because the atoms in the granite are
Mostly empty space themselves
7. If two protons are removed from an oxygen nucleus, the result is carbon
8. If one neutron is added to a helium nucleus, the result is helium
9. If one neutron is added to a helium nucleus, the result is: valence electrons
10. The term Curie defines Intensity of a radioactive source false
11. When getting an X-ray on any part of your body, you are radioactive for a period of time
afterwards false
12. The term that describes how X or Gamma rays are reduced in intensity when passing through
a given material is called attenuation.
13. What type of friction is air resistance? Fluid friction
14. size and shape affect air resistance true
15. In what direction does air resistance act on an object that is falling down?:Up
16. What happens to the drag (air resistance) of an object as the speed increases——The air
resistance increases.
17. For an object that is falling in the air (for example, a skydiver), before the object reaches
terminal velocity, which force is larger, gravity or air resistance? gravity
18. When gravity is the only force acting upon the object ,the object is in free fall true.
19. What is the term when an object stops accelerating due to air resistance? Terminal velocity
20. astronauts don't hit their heads on the ceiling of the shuttle as it falls because both they and
the shuttle are in free fall. True
21. As a snowflake falls it Loses GPE and gains Ek. True
22. A student weighing 400 Newton climbs a rope 5 meters high. How much work is being done?
2000 J
23. You are doing NO work when you hold your 23 kilogram dog in your arms? True
24. Flywheel uses mechanical energy to store energy? True
25. Ludington, Michigan has the biggest ___________ storage system in the world. Pumped
Hydroelectric.
26. Who is considered the father of chemical batteries? Alessandro Volta.
27. Which energy storage system is usually built in abandoned mines? Compressed air
28. Who invented the first closed-tube thermometer, in 1713?
29. Gabriel Fahrenheit.

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 30. At what temperature does the Rankine scale begin? 0 K
31. What is the term for the amount of disorder in a system? Entropy.
32. What is the Law of Constant Heat Summation, which is used to calculate the change in the
amount of heat within a system, better known as? Hess' Law
33. Not including the Zeroth Law, how many laws of thermodynamics exist? 3

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