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WorksheetsThe Big Bang
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What year was Edwin Hubble's famous discovery of the expanding Universe?
1900
1923
1967
1929
How long ago was the Big Bang?
12.2 million years ago
13.7 billion years ago
6000 years ago
3 billion years ago
What does CMB stand for
Cool Micro Bananas
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
What is cosmology?
The study of the origins, evolution and fate of the Universe
The study of the stars
The study of galaxies
The study of space
Is there a centre of the Universe?
No
Yes
What is the evidence that the Universe's beginning can be explained by the Big Bang theoy? Tick the options that apply.
The universe is infinite
The light from the other galaxies is redshifted (cosmological redshift)
Microwave discovery
The discoveries of Hubble revealed that
Galaxies stay in fixed positions
Most galaxies are getting further away from us, moving faster the further away they are
Most galaxies are getting further away from us, all at about the same speed
most galaxies are moving towards a common point
How many Quarks are required to make a neutron or proton?
2
1
6
3
What do the initial moments after the Big Bang have in common with the universe as it exists now?
All the stars, galaxies, and planets that exist today were formed just a few moments after the Big Bang
The Universe back then could not sustain life, and it cannot sustain life now
the Universe was extremely hot then, and it is still extremely hot not
The Universe began expanding then, and it is still expanding today
What happened to the temperature of the universe for gasses to form?
It heated up
It cooled
Nothing
It fluxated
What caused the Big Bang?
Science
God
Sheldon Cooper
No one knows
Who coined the term 'Big Bang'
Albert Einstein
Banjo Patterson
Richard Dawkins
Georges Lemaitre
