Unit Test Earth's Place in the Universe

Which describes the Big Bang Theory?

• There was a big bang.

• An explosion that resulted in the formation of our solar system

• An inital explosion that resulted with the formation and expansion of the universe.

• An explosion that resulted with the formation of our galaxy.

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What is a light year?

• The time it takes for light to reach the earth.

• The distance light travels in one year.

• The amount of time it takes light to travel in one year.

• What's a light year?

Name 2 pieces of evience for the Big Bang Theory.

• Cosmic Background Radiation and Redshift

• Red Shift and Blue Shift

• Cosmic Background Radiation and the explosion.

• Red shift and the explosion

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What is the redshift and are objects moving closer or farther away?

• The redshift is the light waves are stretched and moving closer to Earth.

• The redshift is when the light waves are compressed and moving closer to Earth.

• The redshift is when light waves are stretched and moving farther away from Earth.

• The redshift is when light waves are compressed and moving father away from Earth.

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The wavelength of a redshift is ________ _________ while the wavelength of a blueshift is ____________ ________.

• getting longer, getting shorter

• getting longer, getting longer

• getting shorter, getting shorter

• getting shorter, getting longer

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This type of instrument can identify if the wave moving toward the red or moving toward the blue.

• x-ray telescope

• spectroscope

• optical telescope

• infrared telescope

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Refractor telescopes use ______ lenses to bend and _______ light rays to produce images of objects in space.

• concave, reflect

• convex, reflect

• concave, bend

• convex, bend

Reflector telescopes use ___________ to focus ________________ rays to produce images of objects in space.

• mirrors, light

• mirrors, convex

• concave, light

• convex, light

Name 2 types of optical telescopes.

• xray and infrared

• convex and concave

• reflector and refractor

• hubble and kepler

What is a radio telescope?

• An instrument you listen to music while you look through a telescocpe.

• An instrument that detects radio waves from objects in space.

• A telescope that is only good at night

• A telescope that collects Microwaves.

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