Cosmology

Visible light from the early Universe that reaches us billions of years later should be ___

• redshifted into microwave wavelengths

• blueshifted into x-ray wavelengths

• redshifted into infrared wavelengths

• blueshifted into ultraviolet wavelengths

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is NOT evidence of the Big Bang Theory?

• All galaxies are moving away from us

• The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

• Dark Energy

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

What is the mass that we think is there but cannot directly detect?

• Dark Energy

• Dark Matter

• Dark Clothing

• Dark Stars

What kind of Universe do astronomers think we have?

• An Open Universe

• A Closed Universe

• A Flat Universe

• A Gravitational Universe

Which of the following ideas make up the Big Bang Theory?

• The Universe is currently expanding.

• The Universe was once hot and dense.

• The Universe has a finite size.

• The Universe is unbounded.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Who observed that light from distance galaxies is redshifted?

• Hubble

• Einstein

• Oppenheimer

• Herschel

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Cosmic Background Radiation is...

• Alpha Particles from the nearest black hole

• The light from our sun

• The leftover energy from the formation of our sun

• The leftover energy from the Big Bang

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Dark Energy is....

• The force causing the universe to expand at a faster and faster rate

• The force causing the universe to contract

• The leftover energy from the Big Bang

• A signal from Aliens

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

What are thought to cause the tremendous energy produced by quasars?

• supermassive black holes

• supernova explosions

• hypernova explosions

• the Big Bang

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

Our Milky Way is part of a small knot of a few dozen galaxies that we call ___

• the Narrow Knot

• the Local Group

• the Small Aggregation

• the Regional Cluster