Dark matter quiz

Dark matter is

• Shiny like stars

• invisible

• Made of atoms

• Listed in the periodic table

Which of the following supports the idea of dark matter?

• Many instances of detected WIMPS

• Lensing of light around galaxy cluster

• Dark blobls seen around galaxies

Which type of scientist is MOST likely to study DARK MATTER?

• Zoologist

• biologist

• chemist

• astronomer

Ordinary matter alone can NOT:

• heat up

• Holds galaxies together

• Changes from liquid to gas

• Changes shape

How do astronomers map the distribution of Black Matter in the Universe?

answer choices

x-ray detector

gravitational lensing

metal detector

ruler

• metal dectecter

• x-ray dectector

• ruler

• gravitational lensing

Dark matter is passig through your body right now

• true

• false

What was Vera Rubin observing that led to the discovery of dark matter?

• How fast planets orbit a star

• How spiral galaxies rotate

• How gamma-ray bursts are formed

• How black holes are formed

When galaxy clusters collide with each other, the gas within smacks into each other and becomes so hot that it releases _____________ which can be detected from Earth.

• death-rays

• Gamma-rays

• quarks

• x-rays

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

NGSS.HS-PS4-4

Dark Matter interacts with normal matter only through

• Heat

• time

• sound

• gravity

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

How did scientists realize that dark matter should exist?

• They got messages from creatures living in dark matter.

• By crashing a spacecraft into a large region of dark matter.

• By looking at the sky with a superhigh resolution telescope

• Normal matter wouldn't have enough gravity to form galaxies.