Review: Trimester 1 Earth Science

What does the Big Bang Theory tell us

• About the popular television show.

• the entire universe was once condensed in the form of primeval atom, or a dense mass.

• how the universe began.

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Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

• How our planets and moons formed

• How our universe began

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

• How fast light travels through space

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The universe is expanding!  This means that:

• all of the galaxies are spreading out.
• the universe must have started from a single point.
• the universe is cooling down.
• all of the above.

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The Big Bang Theory is the most widely accepted theory about the origin of the universe.

• true

• false

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Which description is considered most accurate regarding what actually happened during the Big Bang?

• Two galaxies collided causing an immense explosion as stars crashed into one another

• All of what would become the universe was concentrated in a single small point, or singularity, which rapidly expanded into what is now stars, planets, galaxies, matter, and energy.

• All matter emerged from a massive black hole at the center of the universe.

• Parts of the sun were ripped off by massive internal explosions and were thrown into space where they cooled to become other things, like plants, comets, and other galaxies.

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Observations of space indicate that most matter in the universe is ___.

• hydrogen, helium, and dark matter

• gold and plutonium

• oxygen and water vapor

• carbon

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What is the correct order for the formation of our solar system?

• 1,2,3,4

• 2,3,4,1

• 2,4,3,1

• 1,3,4,2

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Which elements are most

abundant in the visible

universe?

• Hydrogen and Carbon

• Carbon and Helium

• Hydrogen and Oxygen

• Hydrogen and Helium

Which of the following is evidence of the Big Bang Theory?

• Cavemen heard a loud bang at the beginning of time.
• The universe isn't moving
• The universe is expanding
• The universe is getting smaller

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What are pieces of evidence of the Big Bang Theory?

• Galaxies appear to be moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distance.

• Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) which pervades the observable universe.

• The abundance of the "light elements" Hydrogen and Helium.

• Matter is constantly created as the universe expands.

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