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History of Universe and Stars

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In the beginning there was nothing... then there was ___

a)

light

b)

matter

c)

everything

d)

galaxies

2.

Cosmology is much like any other field of science; we have ___

a)

theology

b)

clues, observations and rules

c)

creation myths

d)

authority and blind trust

3.

In the past the Universe was ___

a)

denser, more crowded, and colder

b)

rarified, less crowded, and colder

c)

denser, more crowded, and hotter

d)

rarified, less crowded, and hotter

4.

A lot of what we know about the early universe comes from experiments done in giant ___

a)

mass spectrometers

b)

infrared spectrometers

c)

bomb calorimeters

d)

particle colliders

5.

When the Cosmos was very young, particles were whizzing around slamming into each other, creating ___

a)

energy

b)

baby universes

c)

other subatomic particles

d)

black holes

6.

When the universe got its start, it was unfathomably ___

a)

hot and desolate

b)

hot and dense

c)

cold and desolate

d)

cold and dense

7.

If you take a snowball and heat it up, it'll melt. We call that a ___

a)

chemical reaction

b)

nuclear reaction

c)

chemical change

d)

phase change

8.

When you heat something up, what you're doing is giving it more ___

a)

entropy

b)

light

c)

mass

d)

energy

9.

The basic particles of normal matter, which can't be subdivided any more, are ___

a)

electrons, neutrons, and protons

b)

quarks and electrons

c)

neutrons and protons

d)

protons, electrons and quarks

10.

In the very early Universe the four basic forces we see today were all squeezed together into ___

a)

pure energy

b)

a single ball of matter

c)

one unified super force

d)

a single nuclear force

11.

If we call the instant of the Big Bang "time zero", then our physics cannot describe what happens in the first ___

a)

10-43 seconds

b)

10-4 seconds

c)

10 seconds

d)

103 seconds

12.

Three minutes after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled enough that the subatomic particles could ___

a)

freeze

b)

collide

c)

stick together

d)

disintegrate

13.

20 minutes after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled enough that ___

a)

subatomic particles disintegrated

b)

subatomic particles stuck together

c)

fusion began

d)

fusion stopped

14.

The primordial ratio was similar to the Sun's elemental abundance, which is roughly ___

a)

5% hydrogen, 95% helium

b)

25% hydrogen, 75% helium

c)

75% hydrogen, 25% helium

d)

95% hydrogen, 5% helium

15.

Until the Universe was 380,000 years old, electrons couldn't bond with the atomic nuclei. The Universe was ___

a)

ionized

b)

atomized

c)

dissociated

d)

degenerate

16.

After 380 millennia, the Universe cooled enough to form stable neutral atoms. We call this moment ___

a)

assemblage

b)

unity

c)

recombination

d)

coalescence

17.

When the Universe was still ionized, prior to recombination, it was ___

a)

transparent

b)

opaque

c)

translucent

d)

reflective

18.

After recombination, the light emitted by the neutral atoms is what we see today as ___

a)

the Milky Way Galaxy

b)

the Hubble Deep Field

c)

extremely luminous active galaxies

d)

the cosmic microwave background

19.

The background glow predicted by the Big Bang model has been on its journey to Earth for almost ___

a)

13.8 billion years

b)

31.8 billion years

c)

81.8 billion years

d)

318 billion years

20.

After recombination, matter in the early Universe was ___

a)

evenly distributed and had the same temperature

b)

evenly distributed and had varying temperature

c)

unevenly distributed and had the same temperature

d)

unevenly distributed and had varying temperature

21.

Theoretical physicist Alan Guth proposed an addition to the Big Bang model; a super expansion called ___

a)

escalation

b)

enhancement

c)

inflation

d)

distension

22.

The denser fluctuations in the background glow were seeds, where matter condensed into ___

a)

quarks

b)

black holes

c)

the first stars

d)

normal matter

23.

How long ago did our own galaxy start as a quantum fluctuation in space?

a)

1.38 million years ago

b)

13.8 million years ago

c)

1.38 billion years ago

d)

13.8 billion years ago