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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Black Holes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The distance light travels in an earth year is called what?
(a) A light year.
(b) Light distance.
(c) Light time.
(d) Light speed.

2. Galaxies contain what?
(a) Stars.
(b) The earth.
(c) Other galaxies.
(d) The universe.

3. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Ptolemy.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Copernicus.

4. When was the uncertainty principle developed?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1920.

5. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?
(a) Because it gives room for the existence of other worlds.
(b) Because it gives room for the existence of God.
(c) Because it gives room for the existence of heaven and hell.
(d) Because it gives room for the Biblical account of creation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?

2. The point at which the force of a black hole becomes so strong that nothing can escape is called what?

3. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?

4. A location on earth's surface is defined by what?

5. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?

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