Dark Matter and Dark Energy Quiz

Who discovered that galaxies exist and are very far away from us?

• Isaac Newton

• Edwin Hubble

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilei

What is the name of the mysterious particle that makes up dark matter?

• Axion

• Quark

• Muon

• Neutrino

When did modern cosmology get its start?

• 200 years ago

• 100 years ago

• 500 years ago

• 50 years ago

What percentage of the mass energy in the entire cosmos is dark energy?

• 80.0%

• 66.2%

• 50.5%

• 33.8%

What did the PANTHEON+ survey measure the precise positions of?

• Supernovae

• Black holes

• Comets

• Asteroids

What did the two teams of astronomers discover in the late 1990s?

• Dark matter

• Accelerating expansion of the universe

• Exoplanets

• Black holes

What is the study of the whole entire universe as a single physical object called?

• Astrophysics

• Astronomy

• Geology

• Cosmology

What is the name of the effect that describes the accelerated expansion of the universe?

• Dark matter effect

• Hubble effect

• Dark energy effect

• Cosmic expansion effect

What is the age of the universe according to modern cosmology?

• 13.77 billion years

• 10.5 billion years

• 30 billion years

• 20 billion years

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

What is the name of the survey that measured the precise positions of about 1,500 supernovae?

• PANTHEON+

• GALAXIA

• COSMOS

• ASTRA