Intro to Astronomy

Stars formed when nebula __________ and temperature becomes _______.

• Condenses, hotter

• Condenses, colder

• Expands, hotter

• Expands, colder

After the big bang, what force began clumping matter together to form stars and galaxies?

• Friction

• EM radiation

• Gravity

• Electricity

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How old is the universe

• 4.5 million years old

• 4.5 billion years old

• 13.8 million years old

• 13.8 billion years old

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How is it believed that our moon formed?

• A collision between earth and a protoplanet caused part of earth to break off 

• A bunch of stuff from the universe combined through accretion

• An asteroid that died

• Earth was spinning so fast that part of earth broke off

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What event occured 300,000 years after the big bang?

• Protons and neutrons formed

• Nuclei being to form

• Atoms begin to form

• First stars form

How many years after the Big Bang do scientists think it will take for the sun to run out of fuel?

• 200 million years

• 20 billion years

• 9 billions years

• 100 million years

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Which of the following is not evidence for the big bang?

• Cosmic Microwave Radiation

• Redshift

• Nucleosynthesis 

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    Black Holes

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Which of the following formed from accretion? 

• Earth's Ocean

• Life on Earth

• Earth's Layers

• Solar System

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Who researched the Three laws of planetary motion?

• Doctor Beth A Brown

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Katherine Johnson

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

Who discovered of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?

• Andrea Ghez

• Silvia Torres- Peimbert

• Aristotle

• Mary Somerville