wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

H RMPS big bang and cosmo

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

How our planets and moons formed

b)

How our universe began

c)

How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

d)

How fast light travels through space

2.

Which statement is true?

a)

The galaxies are moving toward us.

b)

The galaxies are moving away from us.

c)

The universe remains static or unchanged in motion.

d)

None of the above

3.
How old do scientists think the Universe is?
a)
13.8 billion years old
b)
4.5 billion years old
c)
24,000 years old
d)
5 years old
4.

Where is the center of the universe located?

a)

There is no center of the universe.

b)

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

c)

14.5 billion light years away from Earth.

d)

In a large singularity near the Andromeda Galaxy.

5.

Which word best describes a singularity?


a)

a. Large

b)

b. Cold

c)

c. Dense

d)

d. Flammable

6.

Which scientists was responsible for coining the phrase “Big Bang?”

a)

Fred Hoyle

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Sir Isaac Newton

d)

Edwin Hubble

7.
Who developed the first cause argument? 
a)
Aquinas
b)
Hume
c)
Al Kindi
d)
William Lane Craig 
8.
Who developed the modern Kalam argument? 
a)
Aquinas
b)
Hume
c)
Al Kindi
d)
William Lane Craig 
9.
What was the name of Aquinas' book that he formed his cosmological argument in? 
a)
Summa Theology
b)
Summa Theologicae
c)
Summa Cosmological 
d)
Summa Kalam
10.
What analogy can be used to help explain the cosmological argument? 
a)
Jenga analogy
b)
Domino analogy
c)
Chain event analogy
d)
The Scrabble analogy
11.
What does a priori mean? 
a)
knowledge gained from experience
b)
knowledge gained without experience
c)
knowledge about the world
d)
knowledge about god
12.
What does a priori mean? 
a)
knowledge gained from experience
b)
knowledge gained without experience
c)
knowledge about the world
d)
knowledge about god
13.
what is a necessary being? 
a)
being that is reliant on other things
b)
a being that is self causing
c)
a being that is within space and time
d)
a being that is caused
14.
what is a contingent being? 
a)
being that is timeless
b)
a being that is self causing
c)
a being that is outwith space and time
d)
a being that is caused by something else
15.
What style of argument is Aquinas's cosmological argument? 
a)
inductive
b)
deductive
c)
valid
d)
sound
16.
Which one is NOT one of the 5 ways of Aquinas? 
a)
causation
b)
motion
c)
reliability
d)
contingency
17.
how many of Aquinas' 5 ways make up his cosmological argument
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
5
18.
What does ex nihilo nihil fit mean
a)
nothing comes fro something
b)
something comes from something
c)
nothing comes from nothing
d)
something comes from nothing
19.
The key question asked by the cosmological argument is ....
a)
Why is there something rather than nothing?
b)
What was the start of the universe? 
c)
Did God cause the big bang?
d)
Why is everything in motion? 
20.
What fact does the cosmological argument start from...
a)
That things move
b)
That we can observe the existence of the universe
c)
That effects have causes
d)
That nothing comes from something
21.
Aquinas was influenced by who's approach to causation....
a)
Plato
b)
Hume
c)
Aristotle
d)
Paley
22.
A causal chain must have a.....
a)
finishing point
b)
series of beginnings
c)
starting point
d)
number of elements
23.
Which one of the following was not a challenger of the Cosmo argument.... 
a)
Hume
b)
Kant
c)
Copleston
d)
Russell
24.
Which of the cosmological arguments deals with time and temporal nature of God? 
a)
Aristotle's Cosmological argument
b)
Aquinas's First Cause
c)
The Kalam Cosmological argument
d)
The Contemporary Cosmological argument
25.

what phrase means cant go back for ever

a)

first cause

b)

infinite regression

c)

infinite movement

d)

infinite motion

26.

nothing comes from

a)

the start

b)

everywhere

c)

something

d)

nothing

27.

which scholar was critic

a)

ganilo

b)

darwin

c)

hume

d)

paley

28.

the first cause has to be

a)

contingent

b)

necessary

29.

a criticism of the cosmological arg is

a)

why does everything need a cause or reason to exist

b)

not all things are beautifully designed, nature is evil

30.

which scholar is used with the cosmological arg

a)

aquinas

b)

paley

31.

The Kalam Cosmological Argument is an argument created by a person who was a follower of which religion.

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Buddhism

d)

Greek Mythology

32.

What is the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument.

a)

Everything that exists has an explanation

b)

Everything that begins to exist has a cause

c)

The universe has an explanation and that explanation is God

d)

The Universe has a cause.

33.

What is the 2nd Premise for the Kalam Cosmological Argument?

a)

The Universe has a Cause

b)

The Universe Began to Exist

c)

The Universe has an explanation

d)

Whatever begins to exist has an explanation.

34.

What do we call an infinity that is not growing, but already exists.

a)

Potential Infinity

b)

Actual Infinity

35.

What do we call infinity that serves merely as an ideal limit that is never reached.

a)

Potential Infinity

b)

Actual Infinity

36.

An actually infinite number of things cannot exist in this reality.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

The study of the origin and eventual fate of the universe is called _____.

a)

astronomy

b)

astrology

c)

cosmology

d)

vulcanology

38.

If something that makes light is moving away from you, it spreads the wavelengths of light out. This application of the Doppler effect is known as ___.

a)

blue shift

b)

green shift

c)

red shift

d)

black shift

39.

Most distant galaxies show a red shift. This is considered evidence that the universe is ___.

a)

getting cooler

b)

expanding

c)

condensing into a small point

d)

swirling around

40.

A galaxy showing blue shift is ___.

a)

very cold

b)

moving towards us

c)

dying

d)

about to supernova