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The Big Bang

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was Edwin Hubble's famous discovery of the expanding Universe?

a)

1900

b)

1923

c)

1967

d)

1929

2.

How long ago was the Big Bang?

a)

12.2 million years ago

b)

13.7 billion years ago

c)

6000 years ago

d)

3 billion years ago

3.

What does CMB stand for

a)

Cool Micro Bananas

b)

Cosmic Microwave Background radiation

4.

What is cosmology?

a)

The study of the origins, evolution and fate of the Universe

b)

The study of the stars

c)

The study of galaxies

d)

The study of space

5.

Is there a centre of the Universe?

a)

No

b)

Yes

6.

What is the evidence that the Universe's beginning can be explained by the Big Bang theoy? Tick the options that apply.

a)

The universe is infinite

b)

The light from the other galaxies is redshifted (cosmological redshift)

c)

Microwave discovery

7.

The discoveries of Hubble revealed that

a)

Galaxies stay in fixed positions

b)

Most galaxies are getting further away from us, moving faster the further away they are

c)

Most galaxies are getting further away from us, all at about the same speed

d)

most galaxies are moving towards a common point

8.

How many Quarks are required to make a neutron or proton?

a)

2

b)

1

c)

6

d)

3

9.

What do the initial moments after the Big Bang have in common with the universe as it exists now?

a)

All the stars, galaxies, and planets that exist today were formed just a few moments after the Big Bang

b)

The Universe back then could not sustain life, and it cannot sustain life now

c)

the Universe was extremely hot then, and it is still extremely hot not

d)

The Universe began expanding then, and it is still expanding today

10.

What happened to the temperature of the universe for gasses to form?

a)

It heated up

b)

It cooled

c)

Nothing

d)

It fluxated

11.

What caused the Big Bang?

a)

Science

b)

God

c)

Sheldon Cooper

d)

No one knows

12.

Who coined the term 'Big Bang'

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Banjo Patterson

c)

Richard Dawkins

d)

Georges Lemaitre