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BIG BANG THEORY

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How old is Big Bang in our universe?

a)

13.8 thousand years

b)

13.8 million years

c)

13.8 billion years

d)

13.8 trillion years

2.

The big bang was a what?

a)

explosion

b)

unknown

c)

expansion

d)

contraction

3.

What were the original two elements in our universe?

a)

Lithium and Carbon

b)

Hydrogen and Neon

c)

Helium and Chlorine

d)

Hydrogen and Helium

4.

Galaxies that move closer to us show a what shift?

a)

Red Shift

b)

Green shift

c)

Orange Shift

d)

Blue Shift

5.

In relation to us, most galaxies are…

a)

Moving toward us

b)

Moving away from us

c)

Not moving

6.

Why is the CMB so cool now?

a)

The expansion of the Universe has cooled the radiation and stretched its wavelengths

b)

Dense clouds of dust have blocked most of it.

c)

The cosmological constant has "squashed" its wavelengths and cooled it.

d)

Hydrogen atoms have condensed on it and chilled it

7.

Which piece of evidence supports the Big Bang theory?

a)

The more distant galaxies are moving the slowest

b)

The more distant galaxies are moving the quickest

c)

The more distant galaxies are moving towards us

d)

Galaxies and space is not changing

8.

The event that marks the beginning of our known universe

a)

Theory of Evolution

b)

Big Bang

c)

Cell Theroy

d)

Inflation Theory

9.

The "afterglow" of the energy from the origin of the universe that we see today

a)

Cosmic radiation

b)

Sunlight

c)

Doppler effect

d)

Cosmic explosions

10.

What does the Big Bang theory suggest?

a)

The universe was just there

b)

The Milky Way is the only solar system

c)

The universe is continually expanding

d)

The universe started as a point and is moving towards each other