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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 The Expanding Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?
(a) His emotions.
(b) His ability to reason.
(c) His body.
(d) His mind.

2. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?
(a) Waves.
(b) Light.
(c) Sound.
(d) Electrons.

3. What shape did Aristotle think the Earth was?
(a) Flat.
(b) A disk.
(c) Oval.
(d) A sphere.

4. Time is not separate from space, but is combined with it to form what?
(a) Three dimensional space.
(b) The two dimesions.
(c) The spectrum.
(d) Space-time.

5. Edwin Hubble's observation that the universe is expanding supports what theory?
(a) The Universe Expansion theory.
(b) The Dark Matter theory.
(c) The Dark Bang theory.
(d) The Big Bang theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?

2. The universe has how many dimensions?

3. Who proposed the elliptical orbits of the planets?

4. Galaxies contain what?

5. Groups of atoms create what?

(see the answer key)

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