AST Unit 1 Big Bang Vocab

The distribution (spreading) of radiation according to energy or wavelength

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Red Shift

• Inflation

• Anti-Matter

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

Distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it (crest to crest).

• Doppler Effect

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Wavelength

• Inflation

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

A theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe.

• Inflation

• Red Giant

• Cosmic Background Radiation

• Quarks

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Matter whose parts match parts of ordinary matter except in having some opposite properties (as a positive instead of a negative charge)

• Red Shift

• Universe

• Anti-Matter

• Quarks

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The wavelength of the light is stretched, so the light is seen as 'shifted' towards the red part of the spectrum. This is evidence that the universe is expanding.

• Red Shift

• Quark

• Anti-Matter

• Inflation

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

Believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies; it has been expanding since its creation in the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago.

• Doppler Effect

• Cosmic Background Radiation

• The Universe

• Quarks

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

The change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the wave source.

• Doppler Effect

• wMap

• Big Bang

• Cosmic Background Radiation

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

Electromagnetic radiation as a remnant from an early stage of the universe in Big Bang cosmology.

• Big Bang

• Doppler Effect

• Red Shift

• Cosmic Background Radiation

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

The theory that the universe started with a big bang, or explosion, and has been expanding ever since.

• wMap

• Big Bang

• Red Shift

• Quarks

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Measured temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiant heat remaining from the Big Bang

• Cosmic Background Radiation

• wMap

• Big Bang

• The Universe

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