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The Big Bang (nlg)

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Big History?

a)

study of change over time

b)

study of change of present

c)

study of the past

d)

study of thresholds

2.

Origin Stories are based on what?

a)

the best evidence that scientists and historians have compiled on

b)

the best evidence that scientists and teachers have piled on

c)

the best evidence that police and historians have piles on

d)

the best evidence that psychologists and doctors have compiled on

3.

Which of the following is not the 8 thresholds?

a)

Earth and the Solar System

b)

The Russian Revolution

c)

The Big Bang

d)

Collective Learning

4.

Energy is?...

a)

is the perfect conditions that allow something new to appear

b)

is when new things appear, for example life

c)

is what allows the creation of more complex things in a simple universe

d)

is something that allows something to disappear

5.

What is the early universe like?

a)

fairly simple, nothing in it

b)

there's a lot of stars

c)

really complex

d)

everything appeared already

6.

Where did the Big Bang come from?

a)

came from earth

b)

came from the milky way

c)

came from nothing

d)

came from venus

7.

Edwin Hubble discovered what in 1929?

a)

the galaxies is starting to move inwards

b)

the galaxies are moving away from us

c)

the galaxies are moving towards us

d)

the galaxies just started to move out og the universe

8.

The 2 simplest elements are?...

a)

helium

b)

nitrogen

c)

hydrogen

d)

oxygen

9.

the three things you need to form a star...

a)

time

b)

helium

c)

hydrogen

d)

gravity

10.

When will the Sun run out of hydrogen?

a)

after around 5 billions years

b)

after around 5 million years

c)

after around 5 thousand years

d)

after around 500 years

11.

Where did everything around us came from?

a)

sun

b)

moon dust

c)

star dust

d)

dust

12.

The 2 main types of planets are?...

a)

liquid planets

b)

gas planets

c)

rocky planets

d)

slippery planets

13.

When did our Solar System form?

a)

4.4 billion years ago

b)

4.3 billion years ago

c)

4.5 billion years ago

d)

4.6 billion years ago

14.

How did water get to Earth?

a)

comets

b)

comments

c)

satellites

d)

asteroids

15.

What did planets form from?

a)

leftover dust and debris

b)

leftover rocks and sand

c)

leftover food and water

d)

leftover iron and gold

16.

What are the eight key turning points called in the Big History?

a)

threshold

b)

threeshold

c)

treshhold

d)

trashold

17.

The first force that emerges after the Big Bang

a)

Old Major's speech

b)

Electromagnetic

c)

Strong Nuclear Force

d)

Gravity

18.

Why is the Big Bang the first of the eight threshold?

a)

it won the race

b)

its set our entire universe into motion

c)

the judge of the race marked it wrong

d)

the scientists think so

19.

What did the Hydrogen and Helium clouds eventually turn into?

a)

the first stars

b)

the stars

c)

the atoms

d)

gravity

20.

How do all stars starts their life?

a)

clouds of dust

b)

clouds of gas

c)

nebula

d)

clouds of hydrogen and helium

21.

What happens to a star the size of sun when it runs out of hydrogen?

a)

it becomes a "red supergiant"

b)

it becomes a "massive star"

c)

its becomes a "red giant"

d)

it becomes a "average star"

22.

What happens when a massive star fuses iron?

a)

leads to a colossal explosion called a supernova

b)

leads to a colossal explosion called a superlava

c)

leads to a colossal explosion called a dupersupernova

d)

leads to a colossal explosion called a supernovar

23.

Where do the metals heavier than iron come from?

a)

colossal explosion

b)

catastrophic collapse

c)

explosion caused by grenade

d)

supernova explosion

24.

Which of the following is incorrect?

a)

Mercury-tiny, bleak and super hot

b)

Venus-a volcanic hellhole

c)

Earth-flows with liquid water

d)

Mars-a boiling hot wasteland

25.

What is the habitable zone or the "Goldilocks zone"?

a)

an area which is not too hot and not too cold for water to exist on the surface

b)

an area which is hot enough water to vanish on the surface

c)

an area which is cold enough for water to freeze on the surface

d)

an area which is not too hot and not too cold for water to exist underground