Topic 5.4

Cosmic radiation comes from ....

• Nuclear bombs

• Nuclear Power stations

• Space

• Earth's core

• Isotopes in objects

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What does CMB stands for?

• Cell and Molecular Biology

• Cosmic Microwave Background

• Neither

• Critical Mass Balance

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What is CMB?

• electromagnetic atoms

• radiation that fills the universe and can be detected in every direction

• a faint glow of light that fills the universe

• entire universe

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CMB existed before the big bang?

• True

• False

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What is Hubble's Law?

• The farther the galaxy, the faster away it is moving.

• The theory of the universe's creation.

• Theory that the universe is made of matter and the anti-matter.

The Big Bang refers to

• The creation of the solar system

• The creation of the moon

• The origin of the Universe

• The origin of the heavy elements in a supernova

• None of the above

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What is the temperature of cosmic background radiation?

• about 0 degrees Celsius

• above 3,000 degrees Celsius

• about 270 degrees Celsius

• almost absolute zero

As the galaxy moves away from us, we see it as:

• white shift

• blue shift

• dark matter

• red shift

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If a star is being observed from Earth and it's light has shifted towards the red side of the electromagnetic spectrum it would be...

• Moving towards the Earth
• Moving away from the Earth
• This is a trick question that cannot be answered
• It isn't a star, it is a very large blueberry.

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The vast majority of galaxies in our universe are moving away from us.  We know this because we observe __________ in the galaxies absorption spectra.

• Redshift
• Blueshift
• Turbulance
• Superposition

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