Radioactivity

All background radiation comes from natural sources.

What is the most common source of background radiation?

Which of these is the most suitable description of background radiation?

Which charge does gamma radiation have?

Which charge does alpha particle have?

Finish the following alpha decay reaction:

Alpha particles are nuclei are

Which radiation carries no charge

Which particles are negatively charged

Solve this equation for beta decay.

₂₇⁶⁰Co = ___ + _-1⁰e

Solve this equation for alpha decay.

₈₅²⁰⁹At = ___ + ₂⁴He

Finish this equation

²⁰⁹₈₃Bi--> _{_______ +} ²⁰⁵₈₁Tl

What type of decay is shown here

²³⁸₉₂U ---> ²³⁴₉₀Th + ⁴₂He.

An alpha particle is made up of

Which type of radioactive decay is occurring in this equation?

What makes something radioactive?