Big Bang & Element Nucleosynthesis

How old is the universe?

• 13.8 billion years

• 14.5 billion years

• 5,000 years

• 5 billion years

The light from a star moving away from us would be ...

• Red shifted

• Blue shifted

• Green shifted

• White shifted

What were the original two elements in our universe?

• Lithium and Carbon
• Hydrogen and Neon
• Helium and Chlorine
• Hydrogen and Helium

In red shift, the wavelengths of light become

• Bluer
• shorter
• longer

Who discovered that the galaxies were moving away from one another?

• Edwin Hubble
• Issac Newton
• Albert Einstein
• Galileo Galile

What do the initial moments after the Big Bang have in common with the universe as it exists now? 

• all the stars, galaxies, and planets that exist today were formed just a few moments after the Big Bang
• The universe back then could not sustain life, and it cannot sustain life now
• the universe was extremely hot then, and it is still extremely hot not
• the universe began expanding then, and it is still expanding today

Which of the following is not evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory ?

• Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

• Red shifted element spectra

• The uniform composition of elements in the Universe

• Supernova can produce large mass elements such as gold

Majority of cosmologists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following ?

• How our planets and moons formed

• How our universe began

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

• How fast light travels through space

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is a form of _________.

• Matter

• Energy

• Visible Light

• Water

Which of the following correctly orders the creation sequence directly after the Big Bang ?

• radiation, quarks, subatomic particles, atoms

• atoms, subatomic particles, quarks, radiation

• radiation, atoms, quarks, subatomic particles

• quarks, atoms, subatomic particles, radiation