Radiation/Quiz

Radiation is a stand-alone lecture and an article. It overlaps areas such as radiation astronomy, radiation chemistry, radiation biology, and radiation physics. There are aspects included in the various health sciences and medicine. It is included as part of the astronomy course on the principles of radiation astronomy.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, Clouds are a form of radiation because they have a temperature gradient. - Yes + No
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{Complete the text: An aerometeor is a { discrete (i) } unit of air traveling or { falling (i) } through an atmosphere.
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{True or False, Hydrogen has an emission line in the yellow. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Complete the text: Terahertz radiation refers to electromagnetic waves propagating at { frequencies (i) } in the { terahertz (i) } range.
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{True or False, A metallic or stony object that is the remains of a meteor is called a meteoroid. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which of the following is not characteristic of a neutrino? - neutrinos are affected by the weak nuclear force + produced by a positron annihilating an electron - a decay product of a neutron - produced by the near surface fusion on the Sun - may have a mass - comes in mutable varieties
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{True or False, Boron has an emission line in the yellow. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Complete the text: { X|X-ray (i) } and { gamma|gamma-ray (i) } radiation are best absorbed by atoms with heavy nuclei.
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{True or False, A cryometeor is a very large chunk of amber. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Beta rays, or beta particles, are more penetrating than what other Greek letter designated rays or particles? { Alpha|alpha rays, alpha particles (i) }
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{True or False, Radiation is an action or process of throwing or sending out a traveling ray in a line, beam, or stream of small cross section. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Beta particles are high-energy, high-speed { electrons (i) } or positrons emitted by certain types of { radioactive (i) } nuclei such as { potassium|K (i) }-40.
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{True or False, A lithometeor is a rocky-object meteor. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a characteristic of showers? + throwing a beam - meteors - rain - snow - hail
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{True or False, Micrometeoroids have less stable orbits than meteoroids. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Match up the radiation letter with each of the detector possibilities below: Optical rays - L Visual rays - M Violet rays - N Blue rays - O Cyan rays - P Green rays - Q Yellow rays - R Orange rays - S Red rays - T multialkali (Na-K-Sb-Cs) photocathode materials { L (i) }. F547M { Q (i) }. F675W { T (i) }. broad-band filter centered at 404 nm { N (i) }. F588N { R (i) }. thallium bromide (TlBr) crystals { O (i) }. F606W { S (i) }. 18 micrometers FWHM at 490 nm { P (i) }. wide-gap II-VI semiconductor ZnO doped with Co2+ (Zn1-xCoxO) { M (i) }.
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{True or False, A hydrometeor is a precipitation product. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a radiation phenomenon associated with a crater? + strata - elongated dust particles - high albedo - olivine - Rayleighs - volcanoes
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{True or False, A delta ray is a ray of very fast positrons. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Radiation phenomena associated with craters include? + catena + secondary craters - checking equations about complex systems + deformed strata + electric arcs + explosions
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Hypotheses

 * 1) The radiation doses received by NASA and RSA astronauts probably are not the cause of the medical symptoms of spaceflight.