Cosmology Quiz >> Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space
TOTAL POINTS 10
1.Olbers paradox asks the question…
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what happens as you approach the speed of light?
will our universe continue to expand or collapse in on itself?
why is the sky dark at night?
2.Lookback time means that when we observe distant objects, we see how they would appear…
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in the past
in the future
as they are now
3.Imagine observing a supernova explosion tonight in a galaxy 100 million light years away. When did the supernova occur?
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More than 100 million years from now
100 million years ago
Less than 100 million years from now
4.The universe contains mostly…
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dark matter
hydrogen and helium
dark energy
stars
5.One fundamental assumption of cosmology is that the universe is isotropic. This means…
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the laws of physics are unchanging over space and time
causes precede events
the universe is the same at any location
the universe looks the same in all directions
6.Which of the following best describes what the microwave background radiation is?
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The total light we observe when we look at the blackbody curve for all the wavelengths of light given off by all the stars in the Universe.
The shockwave or echo that travels throughout the Universe that marks the event we call the Big Bang.
The particles that move throughout the Universe that were created during the Big Bang and thrown out in all directions.
Light that is present everywhere in the Universe that came from the time when light first was able to travel through the early universe without being absorbed.
7.As time has gone by, the temperature of the universe has…
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decreased
increased
stayed the same
8.Which of the following most accurately describes the Big Bang theory for the beginning of our Universe?
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An event that instantaneously created all the matter in the universe.
An enormous explosion that organized pre-existing matter into the current arrangement of galaxies and stars.
The explosive event that forced matter to expand throughout the universe.
An event that marks the beginning of the universe as a tiny dot of enormously high energy and temperature but no matter.
9.True or False: Particles and antiparticles (as were present in the early universe, combine with each other (annihilate) to become quarks and atoms.
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True
False
10.True or False: Cooling white dwarf stars provide an independent estimate of the age of the universe (11-13 billion years) to compare with the Big Bang estimate of 13.7 billion years.
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True
False
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