URANIUM

Fill in the blanks with the words in the word bank on the right. Use each word only once.



1. Everything in the world is made of .

2. At the center of an atom is the . It is made of and .

3. Moving around the nucleus are .

4. The energy stored in atoms is .

5. Uranium is buried underground. We can not make more, so we call uranium a energy source.

6. Uranium atoms can be split; we call this .

7. When uranium atoms are split, energy is released as and .

8. In a nuclear power plant, we split uranium atoms and use the heat to make .

WORD BANK


atoms
electricity
electrons
fission
heat
neutrons
nonrenewable
nuclear energy
nucleus
protons
radiation