Answer all questions in this part.
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1. What conclusion did Lemaître and Hubble draw concerning the size of the Universe? What
evidence supported their conclusion?
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1 Evidence of mass extinctions of life-forms is
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preserved in the fossil record. It is inferred that
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some of these extinctions occurred because of
(1) earthquakes
(3) solar eclipses
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(2) asteroid impacts
(4) tsunamis
Pisces
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2. What are the two components of Hubble’s Law?
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say? do stars convert mass into great
process
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amounts of energy?
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(1) nuclear fusion
(2) heat transfer
(3) gravitational pull
(4) radioactive decay
4. How long ago is the Big Bang thought to have occurred? _________________________________
5. What is the shape of our galaxy? ______________________________________________________
6. What was created in the Big Bang?
3 The diagram below represents the development of
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our universe from the time of the Big Bang until
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the present. Letter A indicates two celestial objects.
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