Our Place in the Universe

What is this a picture of?

• red shift
• cosmic microwave background
• accretion
• a galaxy

How do we know the age of the Solar System?

• 
  scientists have dated rocks from the Earth, meteors and the moon
• scientists have predicted it based on the Earth's rotation
• red shift
• scientists are just guessing

What do we call the icy leftovers from the formation of our solar system?

• comets
• asteroids
• meteors
• dwarf planets

Which of the following things did NOT happen when the solar nebula collapsed?

• 
  the nebula flattened into a disk
• 
  the temperature increased
• 
  the nebula broke in half
• 
  the rate of rotation increased

Which group of planets in our solar system can be described as small, rocky, abundant in metals, & have few moons.

• Jovian
• outer
• Terrestrial
• dwarf

Which group of planets in our solar system can be described as large, gaseous, no solid surfaces, have rings & a lot of moons?

• Terrestrial
• Jovian
• inner
• dwarf planets

How old is the sun?

• 13.6 billion years old
• 13.6 million years old
• 4.6 billion years old
• 4.6 million years old

The Solar System was formed

• inside of a black hole
• by Edwin Hubble
• by the big bang
• from a nebula

Most of the known elements in the universe are

• heavy & complex
• light & simple

The Big Bang Theory is about the formation of.....

• our sun.
• our solar system.
• our universe.