WorksheetsSmuggler's Run: CMB
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following is definitely present in space after an explosion?
Sound
Light
Neither Light nor Heat
Only Sound
Which of the following is a characteristic of explosions both on Earth and in space?
Sound
Light
Silence
Darkness
Why is the glow microwave light and not visible?
Because the universe has contracted
Because the universe has expanded
Because the universe has remained the same
Because the universe has disappeared
What happens to waves as the universe expands?
They shrink
They stretch out
They disappear
They remain unchanged
Cosmic Background Radiation is...
Alpha Particles from the nearest black hole
The light from our sun
The leftover energy from the formation of our sun
The leftover energy from the Big Bang
Where is the CMB cosmic background radiation located in space?
near a star
near a black hole
everywhere
near a supernova
Who were the scientists credited with first detecting the CMB radiation in 1965?
Dave Wilkinson
Robert Dicke
Ralph Alpher
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
The change in wavelength that allows us to determine if an object if moving toward us or away from us
Whiteshift and Blueshift
Redshift and Greenshift
Redshift and Blueshift
Galaxies that are REDSHIFTED are:
actually BLUE
really NEAR earth
invisible or not visible
moving AWAY from us.
What are two important pieces of evidence we have for the Big Bang?
Ptolemy’s work on epicycles and Hubble’s law (the expansion of the Universe)
Doppler Effect (the redshifting of the Universe) and cosmic background radiation
The fact that we have multiple Universes to compare and study and cosmic background radiation (CBR)
The abundance of hydrogen, helium, and lithium found in the Universe and Ptolemy’s work on epicycles
