Planet Earth - Unit 1

How long ago was the universe created?

• 13.8 billion years ago

• 13 billion years ago

• 13.5 billion years ago

• 14 billion years ago

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

What is the name of the point of infinite density and heat from which the universe first began? 

• Hypothesis

• Red Shift

• Infinite

• Singularity

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Discovered that the universe is expanding and the Red Shift

• Hubble

• Cecilia Payne

• Robert Wilson

• Arno Penzias

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Who discovered Cosmic Background Radiation?

• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

• Robert Wilson & Arno Penzias

• Edwin Hubble

Who discovered that stars are made of hydrogen and helium?

• Robert Wilson & Arno Penzias

• Edwin Hubble

• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

• None of the above

After the universe began with the Big Bang, what happened next?

• The universe expanded

• Planets formed

• Nebula formed

• The universe contracted

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Within the visible light part of the spectrum, which color has the longest wavelength?

• red

• blue

• orange

• yellow

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

Within the visible light part of the spectrum, which color has the shortest wavelength?

• red

• orange

• blue

• yellow

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

What do we call the change in color due to the stretched wavelength?

• Red/Blue Shift

• Blue Shift

• None of the above

• Red Shift

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What do we call an infinitely-hot, infinitely-dense point in space?

• Red Shift

• Singularity

• Blue Shift

• Cosmic Background Radiation

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2