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Review of #BigHistory concepts for Q1 #BHP
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___________________ is the study of past events.
Cosmology
History
Astronomy
Biology
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What distance is the astronomical unit based upon?
The diameter of our Solar System.
The distance of the Moon from the Earth.
The distance of the Sun from the Earth.
The diameter of the Earth.
3
According to the standard model of Big Bang cosmology, the Universe is approximately how old?
3.76 billion years
13.8 billion years
4.54 billion years
550 million years
4
Why is the 1769 transit of Venus so important to our current understanding of the Universe?
It helped us figure out the size of Venus compared to theSun
A. The transit was the first time Venus was identified.
it caused a full eclipse of the Sun.
It helped us calculate Earth’s distance to the Sun.
5
What is the matching scientific notation for 100, or one hundred?
1010
10-2
102
10-1
6
All origin stories are based on real people and events.
True
False
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For which of the following Big History topics would an astrophysicist serve as an authority?
Theories on the formation of the Universe
Fossil records
How life on Earth has diversified
Origin stories of different cultures
8
___refers to the degrees of magnification or perspective used to measure time, space, and size
Complexity
Scale
Goldilocks Conditions
threshold
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source material for BH draws from many ___, such as biology, chemistry, physics, & archaeology.
maladies
claim testers
disciplines
sciences
10
When ingredients under the right Conditions are transformed to create something more complex
A. collective learning
A. Porridge clarifiers
thresholds of increasing complexity
claim testers
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_______________________ is the fundamental force of attraction between bodies of mass.
Magnetism
Electromagnetism
The atom
Gravity
12
Which is a strategy used to decide whether a story or concept should or shouldn't be “trusted”?
claim testing
creating an origin story
guessing
making claims
13
Before the telescope, what did astronomers use to try to determine astronomical distances?
Spectrascopes
Sextants
Copernicopias
Parallax
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Why did most origin stories begin as oral tradition?
Origin stories did not begin as oral tradition.
All origin stories were written.
All origin stories were traditionally sung
Most were created before the invention of writing
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An origin story is:
A. a theory as to why the Universe is expanding.
A. a scientific explanation for how atoms formed.
the use of spoken language to pass down a people’s history.
an attempt to explain the beginning of humans & the Universe
16
Arriving at a conclusion based upon the credibility of a source is an example of using
authority
intuition
Evidence
Logic
17
What is parallax?
To become less tense or anxious
2 lines that have the same distance between them
a graphic disturbance
method to measure something far away by viewing from 2angles
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When you decide to believe a claim based on information you can observe & verify, you are using
Evidence
Intuition
Logic
Authority
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___ is a method of expressing very large and very small numbers
Scientific Notation
Supernumerativity
Multiplication
Spectrocsopy
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The theory that the Universe is expanding is supported by the _______________________
nuclear fusion occurring in the Sun
redshift of light from distant galaxies
radioactive decay occurring in the Sun
blueshift of light from distant galaxies
21
Which scientist provided Hubble with evidence to figure out if some stars were moving away?
Isaac Newton
Nicolas Copernicus
Henrietta Leavitt
Ptolemy
22
What are the ingredients and Goldilocks Conditions for Threshold 1: The Big Bang?
Time and space + energy and matter
New chemical elements + gravity and accretion
Stars + gravity
We don’t know + we don’t know
23
When scholars make conjectures, they are:
asking questions to guide their research
gathering and analyzing information.
making a thoughtful guess or hypothesis
posing a theory supported by evidence.
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..is throughout the Universe. Scientists
can
view its interaction with gravity but
not
with light
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Dark Shadow
Dark Space
