UNIVERSE SICENCE QUIZ

Galaxies that are redshifted are:

• Moving away from us

• Invisible

• Actually blue

• Really far away

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As mass increases, what happens to gravitational force?

• increases

• decreases

• pushes away from

• no change

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The core of a Red Giant collapses and becomes a _____.

• Black Hole

• Red Supergiant

• White Dwarf

• Blue Supergiant

Shown as number 3, this type of star has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and has begun

thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in a shell surrounding the core. It is called ....

• Red Giant

• Red Supergiant

• Neutron Star

• Protostar

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The scientist that discovered the red-shift:

• Albert Einstein

• Charles Darwin

• Bill Nye

• Edwin Hubble

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Right now, is the universe staying the same, expanding, or collapsing?

• Expanding

• Collapsing

• Staying the same

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A black hole is an object so dense with so much gravity that even ______ cannot escape.

• spaceships

• light

• bacon

• humans

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The CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) is:

• a cloud of light

• the remaining energy from the Big Bang

• incredibly cool

• only located in certain places in the universe

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Shown as number 6 on the diagram, these stars are the largest known stars in the universe measuring more than a 1000x the size of our Sun. They are known as ....

• Red supergiants

• Neutron stars

• White dwarfs

• Massive stars

Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

• How fast light travels through space

• How our universe began

• How our planets and moons formed

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

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