NAME: ___________________________________________ DATE: _____________________ CLASS: ______________

Formation of the Universe

Pre-Reading Thought Question
How do you think the universe was created?

Book Questions (pages 121-124 in Astronomy)

1. What is special about the light that you see when you look at the Andromeda Galaxy? ________________________
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2. Explain how the galaxies in the universe are moving. ____________________________________________________
3. What is a good analogy to describe how the galaxies are moving? _________________________________________
4. What was the big bang? (use page 154) ______________________________________________________________
5. How long ago did the solar system form? (use page 123) ________________________________________________
6. The solar system formed when a giant cloud of __________ and ___________, or ___________________, collapsed.
7. What are two possible things that might happen to the universe in the future? _______________________________
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Video Clip Questions
1. In 1929 at the Mount Wilson Observatory, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies arent
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2. All galaxies on average are moving away from the Earth. Those that are twice as far away are moving
_______________________________ as fast. Those that are three times as far away are moving
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3. The observation that galaxies are moving away from us became known as _______________________ Law.
4. What Hubble convincingly demonstrated by seeing the motion of the galaxies is that the universe is
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5. The universe is believed to be _____________________________________________ years old.
6. Some scientists believe that the universe could have arisen out of ______________________________.