The Universe

The theory that the universe began as a point and has been expanding since is called the _________________.

• Point theory

• Big l

• Big Bang Theory

• Big Boom Theory

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The ________ is a collection of large and small bodies that orbit our central star.

• Universe 
• Solar System
• Planet
• Moon

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This is a large collection of stars, gas, and dust that is held together by gravity.

• Galaxy
• Spiral Arms
• Earth
• Star

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Space and all the matter and energy in it. 

• Clusters
• Universe
• voids
• Light Year

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What galaxy do you live in?

• Earth
• Andromeda
• Hersey
• Milky Way

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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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A large grouping of stars, planets, gas, and dust in space held together by gravity.

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Space

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All space and the matter space contains

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Super Nova

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