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Before humans developed science, we explained what we saw by ___
reading e-books
making up stories
searching the internet
consulting the gods
The study of the physical origins and evolution of the Universe is called ___
evolution
cosmology
botany
university
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution strongly implied the Earth was how old?
at most a million years old
at least millions of years old
at most a billion years old
at least billions of years old
A popular model for the Universe, supported by Einstein, was that it was ___
static
expanding
contracting
created in five days
In the 1910's Vesto Slipher analysed the spectra of “spiral nebulae” and found they were ___
dimmer than expected
missing spectral lines
highly blueshifted
highly redshifted
The highly redshifted spectra of nebulae indicated that they were ___
rushing toward us
rushing away from us
quickly expanding
rotating quickly
In the 1920s Georges Lemaître proposed on theoretical grounds that the universe was ___
contracting
expanding
static
dying
Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason found that the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was ___
moving away from us
moving toward us
rotating
expanding
Lemaître imagined everything in the cosmos squeezed into one infinitely dense blob called ___
a “primeval atom” or the “cosmic egg”
a “first speck” or the “universal onion”
a “pristine point” or the “measureless cell”
an “original crumb” or the “vast seed”
When the Universe was a tiny dot it would’ve been unimaginably, ___
highly blueshifted
highly redshifted
chillingly cold
hellishly hot
The sudden expansion of the Universe from a dense point was coined “the Big Bang” by which astronomer?
Arno Penzias
Fred Hoyle
Robert Wilson
Edwin Hubble
How long does it take light from the Sun to reach the Earth?
about 8 seconds
about 8 minutes
about 8 hours
about 8 days
When we look at Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to us, we see it as it was ___
4.3 minutes ago
4.3 hours ago
4.3 days ago
4.3 years ago
The farther away something is, the farther in the past we see it. This is called ___
the “distance anomoly”
the “Algol paradox”
the “lookback time”
“Olbers' paradox”
Visible light from the early Universe that reaches us billions of years later should be ___
redshifted into microwave wavelengths
blueshifted into x-ray wavelengths
redshifted into infrared wavelengths
blueshifted into ultraviolet wavelengths
In what year was the redshifted light from the early Universe first detected by a pair of radio astronomers?
1965
1975
1985
1995
The glow of the fireball leftover from the birth of the cosmos is commonly called the ___
cosmic radiation aura
universal microwave radiation
universal microwave impression
cosmic microwave background
The Big Bang model predicts the observed abundances of certain elements - ratios of them, compared to ___
hydrogen
helium
lithium
halfnium
When we talk about the Universe expanding, we mean ___
the galaxies are moving
space itself is expanding
the galaxies are expanding
space-time is warping
From any galaxy, it looks like all the others are ___
contracting
expanding
rushing towards you
rushing away from you
Every spot in the Universe appears like the center, which means ___
they all are
none is
Earth is
the observer is
Currently, the best measurement we have of the age of the Universe is ___
13.82 million years
312.8 million years
13.82 billion years
312.8 billion years
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