RADIOGRAPHY EXAM 1 (LATEST) UPDATED 2025
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
What does this describe: a photographic image produced on a receptor by the
passage of x-rays through teeth and related structures? Answer - Dental
radiograph
What does this describe: a beam of energy that has the power to penetrate
substances and record image shadows on photographic film? Answer - X-ray
What does this describe: a form of energy carried by waves or a stream of
particles? Answer - Radiation
What does this describe: Any person who positions, exposes, and processes x-
ray image receptors? Answer - Dental radiographer
What does this describe: the production of radiographs by the exposure of a
receptor to x-ray? Answer - Radiography
What does this describe: a high-energy radiation produced by the collision of a
beam of electrons with a metal target in an x-ray tube? Answer - X-radiation
,What does this describe: the science or study of radiation as used in medicine?
Answer - Radiology
What does this describe: the production of radiographs of the teeth and
adjacent structures by the exposure of image receptors to x-rays? Answer -
Dental radiography
What does this describe: a two-dimensional representation of a three-
dimensional object? Answer - Radiograph
Which dental pioneer contributed this: Developed the first x-ray tube? Answer
- Coolidge
Which dental pioneer contributed this: introduced long-cone paralleling
technique? Answer - Fitzgerald
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph in
the United States on a living patient? Answer - Kells
Which dental pioneer contributed this: used the paralleling technique in
practical dental radiography? Answer - McCormack
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph in
the United States on a skull? Answer - Morton
Which dental pioneer contributed this: introduced the bisecting technique?
Answer - Price
Which dental pioneer contributed this: wrote the first dental text; introduced
the bite-wing technique? Answer - Raper
, Which dental pioneer contributed this: discovered x-rays? Answer - Roentgen
Which dental pioneer contributed this: wrote the first paper on the danger of
x-radiation? Answer - Rollins
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph?
Answer - Walkhoff
Which electrons have the greatest binding energy? Answer - K-shell
What type of electrical charge does the electron carry? Answer - Negative
Which term describes two or more atoms that are joined by chemical bonds?
Answer - Molecule
Which statement describes ionization? Answer - An atom that loses an
electron.
Which term describes the process by which unstable atoms undergo
spontaneous disintegration in an effort to attain a more balanced nuclear
state? Answer - Radioactivity
Which is not a type of particulate radiation? Answer - Nucleons
Which is not a type of electromagnetic radiation? Answer - Electrons
Which statement is incorrect?
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
What does this describe: a photographic image produced on a receptor by the
passage of x-rays through teeth and related structures? Answer - Dental
radiograph
What does this describe: a beam of energy that has the power to penetrate
substances and record image shadows on photographic film? Answer - X-ray
What does this describe: a form of energy carried by waves or a stream of
particles? Answer - Radiation
What does this describe: Any person who positions, exposes, and processes x-
ray image receptors? Answer - Dental radiographer
What does this describe: the production of radiographs by the exposure of a
receptor to x-ray? Answer - Radiography
What does this describe: a high-energy radiation produced by the collision of a
beam of electrons with a metal target in an x-ray tube? Answer - X-radiation
,What does this describe: the science or study of radiation as used in medicine?
Answer - Radiology
What does this describe: the production of radiographs of the teeth and
adjacent structures by the exposure of image receptors to x-rays? Answer -
Dental radiography
What does this describe: a two-dimensional representation of a three-
dimensional object? Answer - Radiograph
Which dental pioneer contributed this: Developed the first x-ray tube? Answer
- Coolidge
Which dental pioneer contributed this: introduced long-cone paralleling
technique? Answer - Fitzgerald
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph in
the United States on a living patient? Answer - Kells
Which dental pioneer contributed this: used the paralleling technique in
practical dental radiography? Answer - McCormack
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph in
the United States on a skull? Answer - Morton
Which dental pioneer contributed this: introduced the bisecting technique?
Answer - Price
Which dental pioneer contributed this: wrote the first dental text; introduced
the bite-wing technique? Answer - Raper
, Which dental pioneer contributed this: discovered x-rays? Answer - Roentgen
Which dental pioneer contributed this: wrote the first paper on the danger of
x-radiation? Answer - Rollins
Which dental pioneer contributed this: exposed the first dental radiograph?
Answer - Walkhoff
Which electrons have the greatest binding energy? Answer - K-shell
What type of electrical charge does the electron carry? Answer - Negative
Which term describes two or more atoms that are joined by chemical bonds?
Answer - Molecule
Which statement describes ionization? Answer - An atom that loses an
electron.
Which term describes the process by which unstable atoms undergo
spontaneous disintegration in an effort to attain a more balanced nuclear
state? Answer - Radioactivity
Which is not a type of particulate radiation? Answer - Nucleons
Which is not a type of electromagnetic radiation? Answer - Electrons
Which statement is incorrect?
