The Birth of the Universe

Most of the atoms in our body come from?

• The core of a star

• Meiosis

• The ocean

• From cellular respiration

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How old is the universe according to the text?

• Over 13 billion years

• Exactly 10 billion years

• Less than 5 billion years

• More than 20 billion years

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What did Edwin Hubble discover in the 1920s?

• The Andromeda Nebula is another galaxy

• The Milky Way is the only galaxy

• The universe is contracting

• Black holes are the end of the universe

What is the Big Bang Theory primarily a theory of?

• The end of the universe

• How the universe evolved

• The creation of black holes

• How the universe began

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The universe created what two things that mutually annihilated each other

• matter and antimatter
• protons and electrons
• dark matter and dark energy
• energy and matter

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What did the universe create that is essential for life as we know it?

• Galaxies and black holes

• Only planets and stars

• Atoms and the building blocks of life

• Matter and antimatter

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What did scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory recreate?

• A new galaxy

• The end of the universe

• Conditions a fraction of a second after the Big Bang

• A black hole

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What did Penzias and Wilson discover?

• Background microwave radiation

• The first exoplanet

• The Andromeda Galaxy

• The first black hole

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NGSS.HS-PS4-3

what did the WMAP probe detect?

• Ocean currents
• Extraterrestrial life forms
• Volcanic eruptions
• Cosmic microwave background radiation

What was wrong with Hubble's mirror?

• Missing

• Color distortion
• Lens distortion

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