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UNIT TEST in Earth &
Life Science
COVERING “ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE AND FORMATION OF OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM”
JULY 18, 2017
1. How old is our Universe?
a.4.5-4.6 billion y.o.
b.4.5-4.6 million y.o.
c.13.8 million y.o.
d.13.8 billion y.o.
2. These are the most abundant elements in
the Universe except;
a.Helium
b.Hydrogen
c.Argon
d.Lithium
3. Ordinary matter consisting of protons,
electrons, and neutrons that comprises atoms,
planets, stars, galaxies and other celestial bodies.
a. Dark Energy
b. Light Matter
c. Baryonic Matter
d. Dark Matter
4. In 1929, I announced the significant discovery
of the “redshift” and its interpretation that
galaxies are moving away from each other, hence
as evidence for an expanding universe. Who I
am?
a.Alan Guth
b.Edwin Hubble
c.Albert Einstein
d.Georges Lemaitre
5. In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow
Wilson earned them the physics Nobel Prize in
1978. What have they accidentally discovered?
a.Cosmic Microwave Background
b.Radiation from the Big Bang
c.Both a&b
d.None of the above
6. According to this people of Central Africa a
creator god Mbombo (or Bumba) who, alone in a
dark and water-covered Earth, felt an intense
stomach pain and then vomited the stars, sun,
and moon.
a.Mutombo People
b.Kuba People
c.Purusha
d.Shiva
7. In India, there is the narrative that gods
sacrificed _______, the primal man whose head,
feet, eyes, and mind became the sky, earth, sun,
and moon respectively.
a.Mutombo
b.Kuba
c.Purusha
d.Shiva
8. The process of combining light elements into
heavier elements by fusion, or "nuclear burning“.
a.Accretion
b.Nucleosynthesis
c.Nucleolysis
d.Adhesion
9. In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest ________
proposed an expanding model for the universe to
explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae,
and calculated the Hubble law.
a.George Lavoiser
b.Georges Lemaitre
c.Georges Lavoiser
d.George Lemaiter
10. According to Edward Milne the universe does
not have a beginning nor an end. What Theory is
this?
a.Inflation Theory
b.Stationary Theory
c.Oscillating Theory
d.Accretion Theory
11. How old is our Solar System?
a.4.5-4.6 billion years
b.4.5-4.6 million years
c.5.4-6.4 billion years
d.5.4-6.4 million years
12. Our Solar System is located in the Milky Way
Galaxy. How long will it take to travel from one
end to the other end of our Galaxy?
a.25 million light years
b.50 million light years
c.75 million light years
d.100 million light years
13. The region were Pluto is located.
a.Asteroid belt
b.Kuiper belt
c.Oort Cloud
d.Orion Arm
14. This is the outer boundary of our Solar
System.
a.Asteroid belt
b.Kuiper belt
c.Oort Cloud
d.Orion Arm
15. All are Large Scale features of the Solar
System except;
a. Orbits of the planets elliptical and are on the
same plane.
b. All planets revolve around the sun.
c. Most planets rotate prograde
d. All planets are located at regular intervals from
the Sun.
16. In the 1700s Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel
Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace proposes what
Hypothesis?
a. Protoplanet hypothesis
b. Nebular hypothesis
c. Encounter hypothesis
d. Planetesimal hypothesis
17. T.C. Chamberlain and F. R. Moulton’s (1904)
__________ hypothesis involving a star much
bigger than the Sun passing by the Sun and draws
gaseous filaments from both out which planets
were formed.
a. Protoplanet hypothesis
b. Nebular hypothesis
c. Encounter hypothesis
d. Planetesimal hypothesis
18. The Current Hypothesis of the formation of
our Solar System.
a. Protoplanet hypothesis
b. Nebular hypothesis
c. Encounter hypothesis
d. Planetesimal hypothesis
19. The first successful landing and operation on
the surface of Mars occurred in the year _____
under the Viking Program of NASA.
a. 1965
b. 1975
c. 1985
d. 1995
20. Another historic event happened recently on
July 10, 2017 when a spacecraft by NASA
captured the closest image of the Great Red Spot
of Jupiter. What was the name of the spacecraft?
a. Philae
b. Osiris 1
c. Juno
d. Rosetta
21. What type of Encounter Hypothesis?
22. What type of Encounter Hypothesis?
23. What type of Encounter Hypothesis?
24. What was the date when this photo was
taken (closest photo captured by the
spacecraft in Jupiter)?
25. What Historic Event happened in July
16, 1969?