The Universe Quiz 19 (25 MCQs)

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1. The first planet from the sun is

2. Which of the following is not true of a scientific theory?

3. Cosmology is _____

4. Which of the following most accurately describes why the Earth receives more energy from the Sun than all of the other billions of stars combined?

5. Today's solar system model is called _____

6. The age of the universe is probably close to _____

7. A change in wavelength of a wave due to the source and observer moving closer or farther apart

8. What consists of a star and all the bodies in orbit around it?

9. What is the unit used to measure the distance between stars or the size of galaxies

10. Which of the following is a piece of evidence that supports the Big Bang Theory?

11. What is our galaxy?

12. Every object is part of a larger system. This is called _____

13. The second planet from the sun is

14. An average size star, like our sun, will eventually become

15. How can a scientist tell how quickly and object in space is moving and whether or not its moving toward Earth?

16. About 13.7 billion years ago, there was a rapid _____ in the universe.

17. A large cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space; the predecessor to stars _____

18. Which of the following EM waves has the shortest wavelength? TEK 8.8C

19. Which of these is the correct order of the structure of the universe from smallest to biggest?

20. Why does group number 18 have the least reactive elements?

21. What is the name of the galaxy Earth belongs to?

22. Red Shift, the objects are shorter because the object is moving away from earth

23. Who observed that light from distance galaxies is redshifted?

24. The spiral galaxy containing our solar system

25. Place the following in order from smallest to largest:Milky Way Galaxy, nebula, Sun, Earth, moon