Threshold 1

Big History uses evidence many different disciplines.

• True

• False

What are Goldilocks Conditions?

• when stars explode in the universe

• when ingredients come together at the right time to create something new

• when scientists use bears in their lab experiments

According to the Big Band theory, how old is the Universe?

• 2,000 years old

• 14 billion years old

• there is no way to know

What is the force between to bodies of mass called?

• gravity

• element

• matter

Dark energy is causing the Universe to _______________

• expand

• shrink

• die

Ways in which people believe and describe how the Universe came to be.

• Galaxy

• Matter

• Origin Story

• Planets

The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

• Solar System

• Sun

• Gravity

• Planets

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• Matter

• Stars

• Planets

• Gravity

The simplest element / a colorless, odorless gas.

• Sun

• Hydrogen

• Star

• Matter

Hundreds of billions of stars together.

• Thresholds

• Matter

• Planet

• Galaxy