Download Beyond the Big Bang The Universe

The Universe:
Beyond the Big Bang
Name ___________________________
GOIN – Integrated Science Per ______
Due Date ________________________
As you watch this video, put the following famous astronomers in numerical order with the
earliest (oldest) being #1, and the latest (youngest) being #8.
_____ Ptolemy
_____
Lemaitre ____ Copernicus
_____ Einstein
_____ Aristotle
_____
Kepler
_____ Newton
_____ Galileo
1. Was the Big Bang really a “Big Bang”, or was it a “Small, No Bang?” _______________
2. The sun is mostly made of ____________ and _______________.
3. Our Solar System is spinning _______ miles/second.
4. If the Universe is expanding today, then it used to be _______________.
5. At places like Stonehenge and Chicinitza, people tried to connect with the ___________.
6. How many planets did the ancient Greeks identify? ______
7. According to early religion, if God created the universe, _________ MUST be in the middle.
8. The first person to put the sun at the center of the solar system and say that Earth rotates
on an axis was ______________________.
9. Kepler said that planets don’t go in perfect circles, they go in _____________. (ovals)
10. Galileo used his _______________ to PROVE the sun is the center of the solar system.
11. After he published his books, the church put ____________ on trial for heresy. (Going against
an established belief, or religion)
12. ___________________ created physics.
13. Albert Einstein was born in what country? ____________________
14. The larger the mass of an object, does it distort space-time (more or less?) circle
15. Relativity says the Universe can’t be static, it must be ___________________.
16. Religion and science are both looking for “the __________.”
17. If you know how bright a star is, then you can measure _____ _____ ________ ___ ___.
18. Edwin Hubble not only discovered many other galaxies, but also that they are all
(getting closer to us / moving away from us) circle
19. What do you think? Is our current understanding of the Universe backed up with facts? Is it a
good theory? (2 sentences below)