Cycle 2 Quiz Review

The distance light travels in a year.

• light year

• galaxy

• red shift

• light spectrum

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A group of millions to billions of stars held together by gravity.

• light year

• galaxy

• dark energy

• cosmology

The galaxy that the Earth is located in.

• Doppler effect

• Galaxy

• Milky Way

• Snicker

___________ is the study of the universe.

• Geology

• Cosmology

• Astronomy

• Climatology

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The Big Bang explains how ____________________. It started as an incredibly small, dense, hot point and expanded very quickly.

• the sun was formed.

• the universe was formed.

• the Earth and Solar System were formed.

• life was created.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

The first light ever in the universe is still observable today but has weakened and become more faint over time. It is called __________________.

• cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)

• Doppler Shift

• red shift

• light spectrum

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What force is causing the universe to expand more and more rapidly?

• dark matter

• light spectrum

• cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)

• dark energy

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an increase in the frequency of waves as the source and observer move toward each other. The effect causes the sudden change in pitch noticeable in a passing siren.

• Doppler effect

• red shift

• light spectrum

• cosmic microwave background radiation

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The Doppler effect causes light to stretch as a galaxy moves AWAY from us.

What do we call this stretching (decreased frequency) of light waves?

• red shift

• blue shift

• high pitch

• low pitch

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

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Which term means "the segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view"?

• red shift

• blue shift

• cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)

• light spectrum

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