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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. A black hole has zero what?
(a) Volume and surface area.
(b) Curvature.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Mass.

2. How far away is our sun from the earth in terms of light?
(a) 9 light minutes.
(b) 9 light months.
(c) 8 light minutes.
(d) 8 light months.

3. Stephen Hawking has what disease?
(a) Cancer.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Lou Gehrig's disease.
(d) Ancel Hoffman disease.

4. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Mars.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Jupiter.

5. Hawking is what type of physicist?
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Micro.
(c) Astro.
(d) Particle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edwin Hubble's observation that the universe is expanding supports what theory?

2. In the universe, objects move in what type of direction?

3. How does Hawking define scientific theory?

4. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?

5. The only constant in the universe is what?

(see the answer key)

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