Radioactivity Webquest

 Place answers on a separate sheet of paper.

 Answer neatly and in complete sentences. Number your answers.
 You may choose to do any part or parts of this. Whatever interests you and you have
time for…
 This is extra credit. The amount of points you get depends on your effort here!

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?

Go back to “website on radioactivity”

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/Radioac
tivity/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?

Go to http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/Biggest-nuclear-accidents.aspx?cp-
documentid=28050106&imageindex=1&cp-
searchtext=Biggest%20nuclear%20disasters&FORM=MSNIIT

23. It has been 25 years since the Chernobyl accident. What went wrong at
Chernobyl? What happened?
24. What have been some of the long-term impacts of this nuclear accident?