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Scientific Theories: Big Bang, Heliocentric And Geocentric Models
Test Description: Our universe
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Most astronomers believe the universe began about how many years ago?
A
7 billion
B
14 billion
C
1 million
D
10,000
2) The ______ is the main theory that explains the origins of the universe and how everything was made, including the stars and the planets.
A
Big Splat
B
Big Bang
C
Multiverse
D
Big Crunch
3) Scientists think the universe was formed billions of years ago by an event called the _______.
A
Big Bang
B
Big Explosion
C
Geocentric Model
D
Heliocentric Model
4) The universe has no fixed edge which means that it has been ______ ever since the Big Bang.
A
rotating
B
shrinking
C
expanding
D
exploding
5) The geocentric model states that the _______is the center of the Universe.
A
Jupiter
B
a black hole
C
Sun
D
Earth
6) Aristotle and Ptolemy were two scientists who supported the _______ model of the universe in which planets, stars, and the Sun revolved around Earth.
A
geocentric
B
Ptolemyan
C
star-centered
D
heliocentric
7) The ______ model states that the Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun.
A
singularity
B
venocentric
C
heliocentric
D
geocentric
8) Galileo supported the _______ model of the universe.
A
Kuiper Belt
B
Marscentric
C
geocentric
D
heliocentric
9) Galileo built an improved ______ which helped him to see far away and observe four moons orbiting Jupiter.
A
microscope
B
barometer
C
telescope
D
planescope
10) The Sun is the center of _________.
A
the Milky Way galaxy
B
everything
C
our solar system
D
the universe
11) Galileo discovered with the use of his telescope four moons that orbited around Jupiter. This means that everything in the solar system could NOT have orbited around _____.
A
Mars
B
Mercury
C
Jupiter
D
Earth
12) Georges LemaƮtre was a Belgian priest who proposed the ________.
A
Hubble Theory
B
Geocentric Theory
C
Big Bang Theory
D
Theory of Superposition
13) Edwin Hubble supported the _______ Theory and made the observation that the universe is continuously expanding.
A
Theory of Relativity
B
Heliocentric
C
Big Bang
D
Gravitational
14) Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the ________.
A
Heliocentric Theory
B
Earth Theory
C
Big Bang Theory
D
Theory of the Holographic Universe
15) The Big Bang Theory states that the universe as we know it started with an infinitely hot, infinitely dense _________ the size of a pencil point.
A
singularity
B
dot
C
star
D
atom
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