The Universe and The Solar System

Question 1

One of the books of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament

Answer 1

Genesis

Question 2

The current accepted model on the formation of the universe; describes the universe as expanding, having originated from an infinitely tiny dense point

Answer 2

Big Bang Theory

Question 3

What are the three hypotheses on the formation of the Solar System?

Answer 3

Encounter Hypothesis, Nebular Hypothesis, and Protoplanet Hypothesis

Question 4

What Latin word did “Universe” originate from?

Answer 4

Universus

Question 5

Discovered the Cosmis Microwave Background Radiation

Answer 5

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965

Question 6

What comes into your mind when you hear the word universe?

Answer 6

star systems, galaxies, gas, and dusts; including matter and energy

Question 7

The present working model on the formation of the Solar System; the Solar System began with a fragment from an interstellar cloud composed mainly of gasses

Answer 7

Protoplanet Hypothesis

Question 8

States that about 5 billion years ago, a rogue star passed close to the sun and stripped materials from both the sun and the rogue star

Answer 8

Encounter Hypothesis

Question 9

The form that the overall composition of the universe transitioned from light elements to solid particles

Answer 9

Nebula

Question 10

Observed the galactic red shifts in 1929

Answer 10

Edwin Hubble

Question 11

Albert Einstein’s favored model; follows the genral theory of relativity equations of the universe with positive curvature

Answer 11

The Theory of Oscillating Universe

Question 12

Pure energy compressed in a single point

Answer 12

Singularity

Question 13

To whom was the fundamental statement of the Big Bang Theory attributed to?

Answer 13

Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre in 1927

Question 14

What is the study of the universe?

Answer 14

Cosmology

Question 15

Proposed the Steady State Theory

Answer 15

Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, and Hermann Bondi

Question 16

What award did Penzias and WIlson earn?

Answer 16

Nobel Physics Prize in 1978

Question 17

What is the age of the Solar System and the planet Earth based on?

Answer 17

Age of meteorites

Question 18

Creator of The Theory of Oscillating Universe

Answer 18

Albert Einstein

Question 19

When did the Big Bang Theory’s universe come to exist?

Answer 19

14 billion years ago

Question 20

Those who stated the Nebular Hypothesis

Answer 20

Emanuel Swedenburg, Immanuel Kant, Pierre-Simon Laplace

Question 21

A phenomenon where electromagnetic radiation from an object undergoes an increase in wavelength

Answer 21

Redshift

Question 22

What are the four theories of how the universe originated?

Answer 22

The Theory of Creation, The Theory of Oscillating Universe, Steady State Theory, and Big Bang Theory

Question 23

What is the age of the Solar System and the planet Earth?

Answer 23

4.54 billion years old

Question 24

Describes how God separated light from darkness, created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days

Answer 24

The Theory of Creation

Question 25

Predicts a universe that expanded but did not change its density

Answer 25

Steady State Theory

Question 26

States that the entire solar system started as a large cloud of gas that contracted due to self-gravity

Answer 26

Nebular Hypothesis

Question 27

What did the Nebula later form?

Answer 27

Star systems and Planets known today

Question 28

When did the galaxies begin to form after the universe?

Answer 28

After one billion years

Question 29

What did the solar nebular eventually form?

Answer 29

The Sun

Question 30

What does Universus mean?

Answer 30

combined into one

Question 31

When did the universe begin with the big bang?

Answer 31

13.8 billion years ago

Question 32

What was the Encounter Hypothesis able and unable to explain?

Answer 32

Able to explain why inner planets are denser than the outer ones, unable to explain how lumps of hot gases contract to form planets

Question 33

What are the Outer Planets?

Answer 33

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. Neptune

Question 34

When did stars and galaxies begin to form?

Answer 34

After 100 million years

Question 35

What are the Inner Planets?

Answer 35

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars