The Big Bang - Crash Course

What did Georges Lemaître call the tiny dot that all energy and matter was squeezed into?

• Scrambled Egg

• Black Hole

• Singularity

• Primeval Atom

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The farther away something is, therefore the farther into the past that we see, is called the...?

• Doppler Effect

• Cosmic Microwave Background

• Hubble's Law

• Lookback Time

Do galaxies move around outer space, or does the actual outer space expand?

• Galaxies move around outer space

• The actual outer space expands

• Both galaxies move and outer space expands

• Neither

Exactly how old do astronomers think the universe is?

• 13.8 billion years

• 4.5 billion years

• 9.8 billion years

• 20 billion years

Which theory suggests that the universe has been expanding since its inception?

• Steady State Theory

• Big Bang Theory

• Plasma Cosmology

• Quantum Fluctuation Model

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In science, we need to make _____________ predictions called hypotheses.

• testable

• proveable

• factual

• fictional

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The ________ shift gives astronomers evidence that the galaxies are moving away from us.

• blue

• orange

• red

• galaxy

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The current belief is that the universe is _______________.

• 4.6 billion years old

• very young

• expanding

• static

The farther away something in the universe is, the ____________ it is moving away from us.

• slower

• faster

• less

• shorter

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Waves and radiation from the beginning of the universe are detectable as…

• microwaves

• infrared waves

• cosmic waves

• ocean waves

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