WorksheetsThe Cosmos
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
When was the Big Bang? (If the history of all time were condensed into 1 calendar year)
(Its from question 11)
(Its from question 11)
a)
January 10
b)
March 15
c)
January 1
d)
November 9
2.
What is the number 4 of our cosmic address?
(Its number 2)
(Its number 2)
a)
Virgo Super cluster
b)
Earth
c)
Milky Way
d)
Local Group
3.
How many years old is the universe?
(question number 10)
(question number 10)
a)
13.8 Billion Years
b)
3 Days
c)
56 Billion Years
d)
12.6 Billion Years
4.
What is the name of the spacecraft that has traveled the farthest into space?
(question number 4)
(question number 4)
a)
Voyager 2
b)
Voyager 3
c)
Voyager 1
d)
Wall-E
5.
What is a star mainly made of?
(page 284)
(page 284)
a)
Paper
b)
Rubber Ducks
c)
Oxygen and Helium
d)
Hydrogen and Helium
6.
How hot is a blue sun?
(page 289)
(page 289)
a)
288 Degrees
b)
Above 3,000
c)
Above 25,000
d)
Below 2
7.
How is luminosity measured?
(page 287)
(page 287)
a)
Absolute Magnitude
b)
Feet
c)
Absolute Brightness
d)
Miles
8.
Who developed the law of universal gravitation?
(page 326)
(page 326)
a)
Donald Trump
b)
Edwin Hubble
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Sir Isaac Newton
9.
Who was the first scientist to present observational evidence the universe was expanding? (page 327)
a)
Harry Potter
b)
Edwin Hubble
c)
George Washington
d)
George Gamow
10.
What did Arno Penzias and Robert Willson Discover? (page 329)
a)
The red shift of galaxies
b)
How hampsters were taking over the world
c)
Cosmic Microwave Background
d)
Light element abundance
11.
What is the hottest color? (on the scale in your notebook) (page 288)
a)
Blue
b)
Orange
c)
Red
d)
White
12.
What is the distance of light minutes to get to the sun? (page 287)
a)
640 light years
b)
8.3 light minutes
c)
56.7 light minutes
d)
6.8 light minutes
13.
True or False: Is Sirius the brightest star in the night sky? (page 286)
a)
True
b)
False
c)
Maybe
d)
Probably
14.
How hot is the color yellow? (page 288)
a)
5,000 Degrees
b)
12,000 Degrees
c)
1,200 Degrees
d)
As cold as an ice cube
15.
What is the sun's radius? (page 289)
a)
100,908,513,709 Km
b)
12,000 Km
c)
56 Km
d)
695,000 Km
16.
Who was the first person to look through a telescope? (question 9)
a)
George Washington
b)
Copernicus
c)
Galileo
d)
Solomon
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