Week 3 Science Quiz with answers
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Week 3 Science Quiz
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Question 1
10 / 10 pts
What are some of the implications of Hubble’s redshift law? Choose one.
The universe is expanding
Distant objects are now much further away than they appear to be
The Universe had a ‘beginning’ some 14 billion years ago
He should have won a Nobel Prize for this discovery but couldn’t because the
Physics Prize did not go to Astronomers until after his death
Correct!
All of the Above
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Question 2
10 / 10 pts
Which famous astronomer used Cepheid Variable stars to show that the stars
were much further than our own galaxy, at least millions of light years away?
Einstein
Eddington
Correct!
Hubble
Lemaitre
Penzias
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Question 3
10 / 10 pts
What is the leading idea for the cause of the tiny anisotropies that make some regions of the WMAP image slightly hotter and some regions slightly cooler? (More on this in week 6)
Waves in the oceans on Earth
Correct Answer
Quantum fluctuations magnified by inflation
Statistical noise
Zeus’ lightning bolts
You Answered
None of the above
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Question 4
10 / 10 pts
Which scientist illuminated how white light is split into its component colors?
Aristotle
Ibn al-Haytham
Correct!
Isaac Newton
Galileo
DaVinci
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Question 5
10 / 10 pts
Fill in the blank from this David Livingstone quote upon seeing the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe: “No one can imagine the ________ of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.’
Correct!
Correct Answers
beauty
Beauty
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Question 6
10 / 10 pts
The visible part of the spectrum (that humans can see) makes up the majority of light in the Universe.
True
Correct!
False
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Question 7
10 / 10 pts
In the WMAP image, the red regions are approximate 0.5% denser than the surrounding areas are said to represent what future structures?
Black holes
Correct!
Galaxies
Earth like planets
Stars
None of the above
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Question 8
10 / 10 pts
On the famous picture from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, the red areas are roughly how much hotter than the blue areas?
200,000 K
20,000 K
200 K
2 K
Correct!
0.0002 K
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Question 9
10 / 10 pts
You can actually hear the Cosmic Microwave Background by listening to static on a radio.
Correct!
True
False
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Question 10
10 / 10 pts
Approximately how many years after the universe began, does cosmology propose the cosmic microwave background originate?
0 years – it’s not even real and comes from the oceans
Less than a day – it was made when God said ‘let there be light’
4 days – it began with the sun, moon and stars
2,000 years – it began during a Noachian Global Flood
Correct!
400,000 years
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