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Theories on the Origin of the Universe

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One of the books of the Hebrew Bible and Christian old testament, described how God separated light from darkness, created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days.

a)

Genesis

b)

Luke

c)

Peter

2.

Describes the Universe as an oscillating universe in which a 'cosmic egg' or Brahmanda, containing the whole universe

a)

Bindu

b)

Rigveda

c)

Brahmanda

3.

He believed in a primordial universe and explained that the original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients small fragments of themselves

a)

Democritus

b)

Ptolemy

c)

Anaxagoras

4.

They believed in an atomic universe

a)

Leucippus and Democritus

b)

Stoic Philosophers

c)

Aristotle and Ptolemy

5.

They believed that the universe is like a giant living body, with the sun and the stars as the most important parts to which everything else was interconnected.

a)

Leucippus and Democritus

b)

Stoic Philosophers

c)

Aristotle and Ptolemy

6.

They believed that the universe was composed of very small, indivisible, and indestructible atoms.

a)

Leucippus and Democritus

b)

Stoic Philosophers

c)

Aristotle and Ptolemy

7.

They proposed a geocentric universe where Earth stayed in motionless in the heavens and everything is revolving around it

a)

Leucippus and Democritus

b)

Stoic Philosophers

c)

Aristotle and Ptolemy

8.

He demonstrated that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth in the center of the universe

a)

Aristotle

b)

NIcolaus Copernicus

c)

Albert Einstein

9.

He describe the universe, matter on the large scale is uniformly distributed, and the universe is gravitationally balanced but essentially unstable

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Renee Descartes

c)

Albert Einstein

10.

According to him, the vacuum of space was not empty at all but was filled with matter that swirled around in large and small vortices. His model involved a system of huge swirling whirlpools of fine matter, producing gravitational effects

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Rene Descartes

c)

Albert Einstein

11.

The universe is expanding and originated in an infinitely tiny, infinitely dense point around 14 billion years ago.

a)

Big Bang Theory

b)

Oscillating Universe

c)

Steady State Theory

12.

Matter was not present at the beginning of time, there was only pure energy compressed in a single point called singularity

a)

Big Bang Theory

b)

Oscillating Universe

c)

Steady State Theory

13.

This curvature results in the expansion of the universe for a time, and then to its contraction due to the pull of its gravity in a perpetual cycle of big bang and big crunch

a)

Big bang Theory

b)

Oscillating Universe

c)

Steady State Theory

14.

This theory predicted a universe that expanded but did not change its density-matter was inserted into the universe as it expanded in order to maintain a constant density

a)

Big Bang Theory

b)

Oscillating Universe

c)

Steady State Theory

15.

breaks down an atom's nucleus and produce radioactive decay

a)

weak nuclear force

b)

strong nuclear force

c)

electromagnetic force