The Big Bang Theory Review Quiz

A large group of stars, planets, gas, and dust in space held together by gravity.

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Space

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The change in wavelength that allows us to determine if an object is moving towards us or away from us

• White shift and blue shift

• Red shift and green shift

• Red shift and blue shift

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What description is considered most accurate regarding what really happened during the Big Bang?

• Two galaxies collided causing a massive explosion when the stars collided with each other

• Everything that would become the universe was concentrated in a single small point, or singularity, which rapidly expanded into what are now stars, planets, galaxies, matter, and energy.

• All matter emerged from a massive black hole at the center of the universe.

• Parts of the sun were torn away by massive internal explosions and were thrown into space where they cooled to become other things, like plants, comets, and other galaxies.

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Observations of space indicate that most of the matter in the universe is ___.

• hydrogen, helium, and dark matter

• gold and plutonium

• oxygen and water vapor

• carbon

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Which of the following options is NOT true about the Big Bang Theory?

• It is the scientific explanation of how life began on Earth and evolved over time.

• It is the scientific explanation of the origin of the universe.

• It states that the universe expanded from a single point and is still expanding today.

• It states that the universe used to be much hotter and smaller.

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What can we conclude from the observation that almost all galaxies are moving away from us?

• Massive black holes are pushing galaxies away from Earth.

• The Sun and Earth are located at the center of the universe.

• Everything in the universe is moving in the same direction.

• The universe, which was once smaller, is expanding in all directions.

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If something emitting light is moving AWAY from you, it stretches the wavelengths of the light. This application of the Doppler effect is known as ___.

• blue shift

• green shift

• red shift

• black shift

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The galaxies that are REDSHIFTED are:

• actually BLUE

• really CLOSE to the earth

• invisible or not visible

• moving away from us.

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The most distant galaxies show a REDSHIFT. This is considered EVIDENCE that the universe is ___.

• cooling down

• expanding

• condensing into a small point

• rotating

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The CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) is:

• the leftover energy from the big bang.

• incredibly cold.

• a cloud of light

• only located in certain places in the universe.

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