Astro Quiz 4 Cosmic Calendar

Approximately how long did the era of nucleosynthesis last?

• 10-10 second

• 1 Moreno minute

• 5 years

• 4 - 5 minutes

You are in a place that is extremely hot and dense, making you feel quite sweaty and claustrophobic. You can't see far because your surroundings are opaque to light. Around you, nuclear fusion is converting carbon into oxygen and other elements. Where are you?

• You are in the center of a massive star near the end of its life.

• You are in the center of a star much smaller than the Sun.

• You are in the early universe during the era of nucleosynthesis.

• You are inside Mr. Uniek's mnd during on the 2020 election night.

What is the temperature of the universe/space (as a whole) today?

• 3K

• 30000K

• 300K

• The Universe cannot be said to have a single temperature

You are feeling like spaghetti. Although normally only about 2 meters tall, you are now about 25 meters long. (How fortunate, if painful, that the being has arranged for your body to become elastic enough so that it is not ripped apart under these conditions.) As you look up over your head, you see things moving pretty quickly in the universebut that lasts only for a brief instant, and then all contact with the universe is lost. Where are you?

• You are crossing the event horizon of a black hole.

• You are in the TPHS parking lot after a 1 inch snowfall.

• You are being consumed by a "crack" in the universe caused by inflation.

• You are near the center of a star that has just developed an iron core, leading to a supernova.

• You are in a medieval torture chamber somewhere in western Europe.

How long after the Big Bang was the Planck time, before which our current theories are completely unable to describe conditions in the universe? (Bonus)

• 10-43 second

• 300,000 years

• 10-10 second

• 10-35 second

• 3 minutes

The ________ refers to a huge expansion in biodiversity 530 million years ago, which also marks the first appearance of invertebrate organisms. This is the last two weeks of the cosmic calendar.

• Rise of the Bearded Reptiles

• Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

• Great Dying

• Cambrian Explosion

________ refers to a solid changing directly to a gas as seen in the tail of a comet.

• Ionization

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Honkoskion

The age of Earth is about ________.

• 4.5 Million years

• 16 million years

• 195 million years

• 2 billion years

• 4.57 Billion years

A/an ________ was used to measure the speed of light for the Michelson and Morely experiment.

• gravitometer

• Catheyometer

• Kaliskiometer

• Interferometer

Flying reptiles such as the Archaeopteryx led to the evolution of ________.

• dinosaurs

• mammals

• birds

• insects