Give 3 examples of radiation

Answer 1

-- what makes bread dark and dry in the toaster

-- what makes the meatloaf heat up in the microwave oven

-- what lets you see the floor when you turn on the light in the room

-- what carries the information from the radio station to the thing in your car

that uses the information to make a copy of the original sound

-- what gives you a sunburn

-- what goes back and forth between the cell-tower and the thing in your pocket

when you get a call

Answer 2

• what you feel across the room from a fireplace
• what comes out the front of a flashlight
• what the TV remote sends across the room to your TV
• what the local station sends across the city to your TV
• what warms the leftover meatloaf in a microwave oven
• what your GPS gets from the satellites
• what the little dish on the garage gets from the satellites
• what your cell phone takes in and shoots out
• what shoots through your teeth when the dentist takes pictures of them
• everything from the sun that reaches us in 8 minutes but not the slower stuff from it

Answer 3

1. X-rays: Electromagnetic radiation commonly used in medical imaging to visualize internal structures in the body.
2. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation: Electromagnetic radiation from the sun that is responsible for sunburns and can lead to skin cancer.
3. Gamma rays: High-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted from radioactive substances and nuclear reactions.

Answer 4

They include: Microwaves, a campfire's heat and waves produced by mobile phones. When radiation occurs, the waves move out in all directions from the producer of the energy.

Answer 5

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Cosmic

Or infra-red, visible, and ultra-violet. Or ultrasonic, audio, and infrasonic.