its a story about the beginning of the universe that varies with different cultures.
What is an origin story?
100
a theory, proposing that the universe started out extremely hot and dense and gradually cooled off as it expanded.
What is the big bang?
100
High Mass and Low Mass
What is the two types of stars?
100
eight
how many planets are in the solar system?
100
Charles Darwin
who made the idea of evolution?
200
The phenomenon in which light waves from distant galaxies are stretched out, which for visible light means a shift toward the red side of the spectrum.
What is red shift?
200
main sequence
What stage does a star spend most of its life in?
200
inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
what are the layers of the earth?
200
a unique role in an ecosystem provided by natural selection.
What is a niche?
300
set of conditions necessary to achieve greater complexity
What are Goldilocks conditions?
300
quarks, protons, neutrons, electrons, atoms, hydrogen, helium,and the four fundamental forces.
What was produced by the big bang?
300
runs out of hydrogen
What causes a star to die?
300
Hadean, archean, protozonic, phanerozoic
What are the four eons?
300
reproduce, exchange gases, use energy, adapt to their environment, grow and develop, respond to stimulus, made of cell(s)
What are 4 characteristics of a living thing?
400
moments in the history of the universe when specific ingredients under the right Goldilocks conditions come together and create something more complex.
What are the thresholds of increasing complexity?
400
the study of the universe on its largest scale.
What is the definition of cosmology?
400
iron
What element kills a star?
400
the idea that earth like planets that can support life are quite rare in the universe.
whats the rare earth theory?
400
natural selection, all things come from a common ancestor
What are the two main concepts of Darwins theory of evolution?
500
evidence is proven and intuition is the ability to understand something without the need for conscious reasoning.
What is the difference between intuition and evidence?
500
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, newton, and hubble
Who are the key scientists?
500
a state of matter in which protons and electrons are not bound together.
What is the definition of plasma?
500
a molecular cloud of interstellar gas which was filled with particles of ice, dust, rock and other particles,collapsed.
how was our solar system formed?
500
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus
What are the six essential elements that are required to live on earth?