Astronomy
Welcome back
April 7, 2014
Chapter 26
April 7 Agenda
 Learning target: Understand the scale of the Universe and what is
considered the visible universe
 Vocabulary: Look these up in Chapter 26 before we begin today
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1. cosmology 2. Big Bang 3. Red shifting
Agenda:
How big is the universe?
Notes on the Universe/Big bang demo
Quiz
April 18; Fieldtrip to Museum of flight---make sure you pay and give me
your fieldtrip form
Quiz on the Universe
 1. Is the universe expanding or shrinking?
 2. What does red shifting show?
 3. Is there a true center of the universe?
 4. What do we mean when we say the universe is
homogenous?
 5. Is the expansion of the universe getting faster or
slowing down?