Astronomy 6

Select all of the true statements about the Big Bang Theory

• It was an explosion with sound and light

• It started with a ball of all of the universe's matter and energy

• It occurred 4.5 billion years ago

• The universe expanded from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy within a second

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Dark matter is a substance that we cannot see, but that is all around out universe. It gets in between objects to push them further away from Each other and to make our universe then continuously expand. Which idea does this best relate to?

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation

• Earth's Tilt

• Planet Formation

What was there before the Big Bang?

• Scientists don't know for sure

• Nothing

• An entirely different universe

• Space

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

True or False: The Big Bounce is the theory that there could have been a universe before the one we know today

• True

• False

The Big Bang Theory is supported by evidence such as Hubble's Law and Cosmic Background Radiation. Earn a point for explaining what Hubble's Law is and earn another point by explaining how it supports the Big Bang Theory.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

If an object in the universe is moving away from us, it appears more reddish. We call this process redshift. Given this light wave, draw what the wave would look like if it were red shifted. You may draw the new wave on top of or below the one given.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Select all of the true statements about the formation of the Solar System

• It happened 4.5 billion years ago

• It formed by a nebula initially collapsing in on itself

• The heaviest materials in the early solar system got yeeted far away from the sun

• The sun and planets formed by particles colliding and collecting, like a snowball

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Provided is a small data table of a planet's distance from the sun and how long it takes to orbit the sun. Make a claim about a planet's distance from the sun and its effect on it's orbital period.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Match the following

• 4

• Venus

• 5

• Neptune

• 7

• Mars

• 2

• Jupiter

• 8

• Uranus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Label where the Asteroid Belt is, as well as the Kuiper Belt

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3