Week 2 Quiz
1. Name two different types of hypotheses.
2. What type of hypothesis can become a law
3. What type of hypothesis can become a theory
4. Give an example of an explanatory hypothesis
5. The scientific method must be done in steps in the numerical order.
6. What evidence is there for the Big Bang?
7. Explain Red Shift/Cosmic background radiation
8. How can you detect cosmic background radiation
9. How did new elements form from the Big Bang?
10. How was the balloon experiment an accurate representation of the Big Bang?
11. What were the limitations of the balloon experiment compared to the universe?
12. What did the balloon represent in the experiment?
13. In an expanding universe, everything is moving towards/away from everything
else.
14. What is a Nebula?
15. What force causes a Nebula to collapse inward?
16. What is a planetesimal?
17. How are planetesimals formed?
18. What process does the sun perform to create energy and light while creating new
elements?
19. What are the three layers of the earth?
20. Why did the layers of the Earth separate?
21. Match the layer of the liquid from the density lab with the comparable layer of the
Earth….water, corn syrup, oil / crust, mantle, core
22. Where did the Earth’s water come from?
23. Where did the Earth’s atmosphere come from?
24. How is the Earth’s atmosphere different today from the original atmosphere?
25. What effects have volcanoes had on the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans?
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