THE UNIVERSE: Big Bang Episode
Mr. Kuffer
Concepts of Physics
North Allegheny Senior High
Name________________
Period________________
Watch the Big Bang Episode and answer the questions that go with it. In the left-hand
column you will see the time in which the answer will appear in the video.
1. How old is the Universe?______________________
2. When galaxies are looked at, what do we notice?______________________
3. Does the Big Bang Theory explain everything?___________
4. The earth is _________________ and _______________-based with a _________
core. The surface is mostly ______________________
5:25 5. The sun is mostly ____________________and _____________________. Its
surface is nearly______________________ F.
5:49
6. Our solar system is around _________________________years old.
6:21
7. Name of our galaxy is_______________________________.
*****Stop at 10:13 to look at names on building****************
8. Name 6 Universities named in this video so far_____________________________
12:53
9. What did the gates of the earliest calendar indicate?______________________________
10. What book did Michio Kaku author?________________________________________
13:46
11. In early times, what did the birth of a star signify?__________________________
16:15
12. What did the early Greeks calculate about the earth?_________________________
17:01
13. How many planets could the Greeks see with the naked eye?____________________
14. What were they?________________________________________________________
True/False
21:30
Kurt Gingerich’s granddaddy is in this video?
15. What is the period (time it takes a planet to orbit the sun) of Mercury?__________
What is the period of Saturn?_____________________
Kepler was the “champion of ____________________________________science”?
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Kepler: Planets don’t travel in perfect circles, but rather _____________________ around
the sun.
26:44
How many times could Galileo’s telescope magnify things?_________________________
SKIP 26:44 to
31:30
33:00
What did Newton use to explain nature?_______________________________________
34:12
What did Newton discover about gravity?_______________________________________
35:19
What did Newton us to describe the laws of nature?___________________________________
35:30
What did he relate the falling apple to?_____________________________________________
37:37
What job did Einstein take when he failed to get a teaching job?________________________
38:46
What did Newton believe about the Universe?_______________________________________
40:10
What was strange about Einstein’s childhood?_______________________________________
41:14
What two things did Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity “weave together”?____________