Cosmology and Birth of Earth

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Science
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9th - 12th Grade
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Hard
+3
Standards-aligned
Charles Martinez
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22 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Before humans developed science, we explained what we saw by ___
reading e-books
making up stories
searching the internet
consulting the gods
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The study of the physical origins and evolution of the Universe is called ___
evolution
cosmology
botany
university
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-2
NGSS.HS-ESS1-3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution strongly implied the Earth was how old?
at most a million years old
at least millions of years old
at most a billion years old
at least billions of years old
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A popular model for the Universe, supported by Einstein, was that it was ___
static
expanding
contracting
created in five days
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In the 1910's Vesto Slipher analysed the spectra of “spiral nebulae” and found they were ___
dimmer than expected
missing spectral lines
highly blueshifted
highly redshifted
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS4-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The highly redshifted spectra of nebulae indicated that they were ___
rushing toward us
rushing away from us
quickly expanding
rotating quickly
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In the 1920s Georges Lemaître proposed on theoretical grounds that the universe was ___
contracting
expanding
static
dying
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-2
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