Big Bang
What are four pieces of evidence that support the big bang theory?
Redshift, expansion of the universe, light spectra, and CMB
The catastrophic explosion that ejects star mass.
What is Supernova?
What is a minor planet of the inner solar system?
What is an Asteroid?
Early formation of stars before nucleosynthesis.
What is Protostar?
What impact did stars have on the Universe?
Explain the theory of redshift and blueshift
Redshift: light moving toward the red end of the visible spectrum because an object is moving away
Blueshift: light moving toward the blue end of the visible light spectrum because an object is moving closer
Where do elements come from?
Lighter: hydrogen and helium originated in the big bang
Heavier: nuclear fusion in the core of high mass stars OR the heavier (like gold/uranium) from violent events such as supernovas
What region can't particles or electromagnetic radiation escape?
What is a black hole?
A rotating disk of matter formed by accretion.
What is accretion disk?
What is gravity?
What is the electromagnetic radiation from the big bang called?
What is CMB (cosmic microwave background)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What is a solar nebula and what is it made of?
Rotating disk of gas and dust from which our sun and the planets in our solar system formed from approx. 4.6 billion years ago.
The late phase of stellar evolution.
What is Red Giant?
Formed out of cosmic dust of grain.
What is Planetismals?
A tool used to determine the composition of a material.
What is a spectroscope/spectrograph
What is the most abundant element in the Universe?
What is Hydrogen.
Where does nuclear fusion take place in our Sun? What is being fused?
What is the core? Hydrogen into helium
Explain the role of a protoplanetary disk in the formation of our solar system?
Swirling cloud of gas and dust around a new star, serves as the birthplace of planets, asteroids and other planetary bodies in a solar system.
A large body of matter that orbits around the sun?
Can you name all the planets IN ORDER in our solar system?
My very educated mother just served us noodles!
When the Big Bang cooled what formed?
What is stars.
Explain briefly each phase in the life cycle of a HIGH MASS star
How did the materials that make up asteroids and comets end up where they are today?
They are leftover building blocks of solar system formation.
Comets: Formed farther out, made up of ice and dust
Asteroids: small rocky bodies in the inner solar system (Mostly)
Why do we have rocky planets and gas giant planets?
Solar winds burned off the gases from the inner solar system planets but couldn't reach those in the outer solar system
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
**What does the existence of exoplanets and other planetary systems tell us about our own solar system's formation?
Provides context for how our own solar system formed.