Cosmology Quiz 1 Review

Which description is considered most accurate regarding what actually happened during the Big Bang?

• Two galaxies collided causing an immense explosion as stars crashed into one another

• All of what would become the universe was concentrated in a single small point, or singularity, which rapidly expanded into what is now stars, planets, galaxies, matter, and energy.

• All matter emerged from a massive black hole at the center of the universe.

• Parts of the sun were ripped off by massive internal explosions and were thrown into space where they cooled to become other things, like plants, comets, and other galaxies.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Observations of space indicate that most matter in the universe is ___.

• hydrogen, helium, and dark matter

• gold and plutonium

• oxygen and water vapor

• carbon

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Which of the following is evidence of the Big Bang Theory?

• Cavemen heard a loud bang at the beginning of time.
• The universe isn't moving
• The universe is expanding
• The universe is getting smaller

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Determining what stars are made of by dividing the incoming light from them into individual colors or wavelengths and looking at the gaps is called __________.

• Spectroscopy

• Absorption spectrum

• Main sequence

• Continuous spectrum

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is the HR diagram used to plot for stars?

• Luminosity versus distance

• Temperature versus luminosity

• Luminosity versus temperature

• Size versus temperature

The unknown emissions spectra belongs to the element

• Hydrogen

• Mercury

• Neon

• Helium

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

Stars, like our sun, are made primarily of which elements?

• Hydrogen only

• Helium and Carbon

• Carbon and Iron

• Hydrogen and Helium

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

In which region of the H-R Diagram would you be likely to find Blue Giants?

• W
• X
• Y
• Z

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

A Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram shows the relationship between ____. 

• luminosity and parallax

• parallax and temperature
• absolute magnitude and apparent magnitude
• temperature and luminosity

Use the diagram to answer the question.Using the figure, which star is a supergiant?

• North Star
• Deneb
• Pollux
• Sirius B