This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > The Universe – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Universe Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is dark matter? A) Light. B) Matter that emits no light at any wavelength. C) Invisible life. D) Stars dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matter that emits no light at any wavelength. 2. A star's life would follow which sequence? A) Giant, main sequence, white dwarf. B) White dwarf, main sequences, giant. C) Main sequence, white dwarf, giant. D) Main sequence, giant, white dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Main sequence, giant, white dwarf. 3. Which is the correct sequence from largest to smallest? A) Milky Way, Universe, Solar System. B) Solar System, Milky Way, Universe. C) Universe, Solar System, Milky Way. D) Universe, Milky Way, Solar System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Universe, Milky Way, Solar System. 4. The multiverse theory is based off of a certain theory A) Twine. B) Thread. C) String. D) Cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) String. 5. In what book of Hinduism the Theory of Creation can be found? A) Revelation. B) Genesis. C) Rigveda. D) Creation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rigveda. 6. How do we measure the distance between galaxies and distant stars? * A) Kilometers. B) Meters. C) Light years. D) Miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light years. 7. The universe expands, reaches a maximum then contracts until it reaches a minimum size, then is "reborn" A) Steady state theory. B) Creationism. C) Oscillating universe theory. D) Creation myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oscillating universe theory. 8. Galaxies are composed of (best answer) A) Stars. B) Stars and gas. C) Stars, dust, and gas. D) Stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity. 9. The lighter elements, hydrogen and helium, were created A) In the first few moments after the Big Bang. B) Billions of years after the Big Bang. C) Only after stars were formed. D) Before the Big Bang. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the first few moments after the Big Bang. 10. A diagonal area on an H-R diagram that includes more than 90 percent of all stars. A) Absolute brightness. B) Apparent brightness. C) Main sequence. D) Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Main sequence. 11. Who is the Father of Big Bang? A) Georges Lemaitre. B) Isaac Newton. C) Albert Einstein. D) G-Dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Georges Lemaitre. 12. Galaxies that move closer to us show a what shift? A) Green Shift. B) Blue Shift. C) Orange Shift. D) Red Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blue Shift. 13. When we say an object is in orbit, we mean that it is traveling around another object in space. What do planets in a solar system orbit? A) A universe. B) A star. C) A galaxy. D) A moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A star. 14. What is the best evidence for the Big Bang theory? A) How fast light can travel. B) The expansion of the Universe. C) Creation of new planets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The expansion of the Universe. 15. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull from the? A) Sun. B) Ocean. C) Moon. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moon. 16. ..... needs heat and light to survive. A) Non-living things. B) Stars. C) Planets. D) Living things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Living things. 17. What is the term when stars blow up A) Solar nebula. B) Stellarnova. C) Fashionnova. D) Supernova. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Supernova. 18. The universe's eventual fate could be A) Ever expanding-too much mass. B) Expand and then collapse-not enough mass. C) Expand and remain a size-just enough mass. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. What does a stars color indicate? A) Age. B) Temperature. C) Size. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature. 20. Which is a FALSE statement about The Big Bang? A) There is evidence that The Big Bang occurred. B) The universe is constantly changing. C) The universe is never changing; it remains static. D) The theory states that it began as a single point in time and was very small and very hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The universe is never changing; it remains static. 21. What is dark energy thought to do? A) It causes the universe to expand at an increasing rate. B) It causes the universe to heat up. C) It causes stars and galaxies to form. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It causes the universe to expand at an increasing rate. 22. What causes the Moon to change phases? A) Its small diameter. B) Its rotation on its axis. C) Its movement around Earth. D) Earth's shadow on the Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its movement around Earth. 23. Small rocky bodies that orbit around the sun are called A) Asteroids. B) Meteors. C) Comets. D) Meteorites. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asteroids. 24. What tool did Galileo use to make his discoveries? A) Ancient buildings like Chicen Itza in Mexico. B) Telescope. C) Satellite. D) Space Shuttle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telescope. 25. How do scientists know what stars are made of? A) Radio Waves. B) The Doppler Effect. C) Emission Lines. D) Science!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emission Lines. 26. Composed of millions of stars as well as interstellar gas and dust A) Black holes. B) Nebulae. C) Galaxies. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Galaxies. 27. Which galaxy shape is not a part of Hubble's classification system? A) Spherical. B) Spiral. C) Elliptical. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spherical. 28. Who is the astronomer in 1929 announced the theory that the universe is continually expanding.This astronomer studied light from distant stars and found they are moving away from each other. A) Johannes Kepler. B) Isaac Newton. C) Edward Hubble. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward Hubble. 29. A ..... is a large collection of stars, gas, and dust A) Galaxy. B) Planet. C) Star. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galaxy. 30. Why does Earth get more energy from the sun than from all the other stars in the universe combined? A) The sun is much larger than other stars. B) The sun is much closer than the other stars. C) The sun is much hotter than the other stars. D) The sun is much more dense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun is much closer than the other stars. 31. How do they save Eric from the black hole? pg 269 A) Cosmos guides him out with directions. B) They find the other side of the black hole. C) They reconstruct him with help from Cosmos. D) They send a homing beaker to guide him out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They reconstruct him with help from Cosmos. 32. What is the name of the galaxy that includes Earth? A) The Milky Way. B) The Milky Star. C) The Best Galaxy Ever. D) The White Dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Milky Way. 33. Our galaxy is a ..... galaxy. A) Spiral. B) Irregular. C) Elliptical. D) Twirl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiral. 34. Distance measurement used by astronomers for distant objects. A) Kilometers. B) Miles. C) Light Seconds. D) Light Years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light Years. 35. What type of galaxy is Earth in? TEK 8.8A A) Spiral. B) Square. C) Elliptical. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiral. 36. Kepler's first law states that the orbits of the planets are in the shape of a/an ..... A) Perfect circle. B) Ellipse. C) Spiral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipse. 37. How do new classify galaxies? A) Amount of gas. B) Shapes. C) Age. D) Size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shapes. 38. Which star would have the highest temperature? A) A red star. B) A white star. C) A blue star. D) A yellow star. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A white star. 39. The diminishing brightness of a star is balanced by the increasing number of stars seen. A) Hubble's theory. B) Hubble's law. C) Olber's paradox. D) Keebler law. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olber's paradox. 40. Who discovered the Geocentric method? A) The Earth its self. B) Copernicus. C) Ptolemy. D) The church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ptolemy. 41. A star is born in a ..... A) Black hole. B) Nebula. C) Giant. D) White dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nebula. 42. The part of the atom that determines the identity of the atom A) Neutron. B) Electron. C) Proton. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proton. 43. After a supernova, the core can collapse into a neutron star, or if massive enough even a ..... A) Brown Dwarf. B) Black Dwarf. C) White Dwarf. D) Black Hole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black Hole. 44. Low-mass stars eventually collapse into what final star remnant? A) Neutron stars. B) Black holes. C) White dwarfs. D) Nebulae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White dwarfs. 45. Which statement below most accurately describes our universe? A) Thousands of stars around a black hole. B) A system of planets and moons. C) All of the billions of stars and galaxies. D) All of the known galaxies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the billions of stars and galaxies. 46. The mass-energy density of the Universe is ..... A) 70% dark matter; 15% dark matter, 15% light. B) 100% dark energy. C) 70% dark energy; 29% light; <1% matter/dark matter. D) 70% dark energy; 29% matter/dark matter; <1% light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 70% dark energy; 29% matter/dark matter; <1% light. 47. The inverse of the rate of expansion of the universe should equal which value? A) The position of the home galaxy (the Milky Way). B) The rate of the home galaxy's rotation. C) The velocity of the galaxies moving away. D) The age of the universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The age of the universe. 48. A Greek philosopher who believed in the primordial universe. A) Democritus. B) Aristotle. C) Ptolemy. D) Anaxagoras. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaxagoras. 49. *There are an estimated ..... galaxies in the universe. A) 100 billion. B) 100 million. C) 1 Billion. D) 1 Thousand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 Billion. 50. What characteristic of Earth makes it a habitable place for life? In other words, what does Earth have that no other planet has? A) An atmosphere. B) A solid surface. C) Carbon. D) Liquid water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Liquid water. 51. The "afterglow" of the energy from the origin of the universe that we see today. A) Sunlight. B) Cosmic explosions. C) Cosmic radiation. D) Doppler effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cosmic radiation. 52. As part of the Big Bang Theory of the formation of the universe, scientists believe that over time, the universe is continually changing in what characteristic? A) From more dense to less dense. B) From rotating to stationary. C) From cooler to hotter. D) From very large to very small. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From more dense to less dense. 53. What is the order of the colors in the spectrum? A) Red orange yellow green indigo violet. B) Violet indigo blue green yellow orange red. C) Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. D) Green yellow orange red violet indigo blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. 54. What is our sun? A) A star composed of hydrogen and helium. B) A big ball of fire. C) A star composed of nitrogen and carbon. D) A large, bright planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A star composed of hydrogen and helium. 55. Most distant galaxies show a red shift. This is considered evidence that the universe is ..... A) Getting cooler. B) Expanding. C) Condensing into a small point. D) Swirling around. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expanding. 56. Scientist that believe in the Big Bang Theory think that the universe was once much ..... A) Smaller and cooler. B) Brighter and larger. C) Heavier and darker. D) Denser and hotter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denser and hotter. 57. What determines if a star becomes a giant or a supergiant? A) Star temperature. B) Star luminosity. C) Star size. D) Star color. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Star size. 58. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth after the Sun and is located 4.3 light years away from Earth. How long does it take light from Proxima Centauri to reach Earth? A) 4.3 years. B) 1 year. C) 10 trillion years. D) 43 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4.3 years. 59. A universe with enough matter (gravity) to eventually stop the expansion and recollapse will result in Big Crunch A) Open Universe. B) Closed Universe. C) Flat Universe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed Universe. 60. Which is the largest planet in the Solar System and has a prominent red spot? A) Jupiter. B) Mars. C) Uranus. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jupiter. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesThe Universe Quiz 1The Universe Quiz 2The Universe Quiz 3The Universe Quiz 4The Universe Quiz 5The Universe Quiz 6The Universe Quiz 7The Universe Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books