The Universe Quiz 5 (25 MCQs)

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1. For stars that are bigger than our sun what happens when it no longer a main sequence star?

2. A universe with too little matter (gravity) to stop the expansion will results in total emptiness and referred as the Big Rip.

3. What are stars mainly made of?

4. Which is the smallest?

5. Natural satellites that orbit planets and asteroids

6. How does Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation support the Big Bang Theory?

7. Visible light emitted from a star or galaxy can be separated into a band of colors, called a _____

8. What type of galaxy do we live in?

9. The Big Bang Theory is a hypothesis that states that all matter and energy were at one time compressed into a small volume and then _____

10. In which list are celestial features shown in order of increasing size?

11. Terrestrial Planets _____

12. What is the smallest out of these terms?

13. The unit of length that astronomers use is the

14. The three types of galaxies are

15. Edwin Hubble's discoveries were so important that he had something named after him. What was it?

16. Which scientist was the first to find evidence that the universe is expanding

17. All the things that are kept the same in an experiment.

18. How many suns do we have

19. If we observe a Doppler blue shift from a distant star, the star must be

20. What is the MAJOR reason Earth has seasons?

21. In relation to us, most galaxies are _____

22. It is the distance light travels in one year which is about 9, 000, 000, 000 kilometer.

23. A galaxy, such as the Milky Way Galaxy, is very small compared to

24. What do you call the matter that consists protons, electrons and neutrons?

25. What is the meaning of the vocabulary word compact?