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How Big is the Universe

Learning about the universe, size of the universe, how old is the universe, what form has the universe and what is speed light

Please Read the Following Instructions and answer the questions.

1. Visit: https://www.space.com/24073-how-big-is-the-universe.html.

2. Read and click on the link Big Bang

3. Answer the following questions:

4. Fill in the blanks

5. One second after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with: _______________, ___________,and _____________________.

6. The Big Bang nucleosynthesys is the formation of: ___________________,______________, and_____________________________

7. What is the cosmic microwave background radiation? ________________________________________________________________________

8. Mark T for true or F for false

9. To calculate the age of our solar system. Planck calculated the age by studying the cosmic microwave background.____________________________________________

10. Our solar system is 20 billion years old___________

11. Click on the link speed of light

12. Answer the following question:

13. If you could travel at a speed of light, how fast you could go around the Earth? ________________________________________________________________________

14. Who was the first scientist who found a theory about speed of light? ________________________________________________________________________

15. Click on the link Universe is Flat

16. Answer the following questions:

17. What factors depends that the shape the universe is like a flat piece of paper? ________________________________________________________________________

18. How do we measure the shape of the universe? ________________________________________________________________________

19. Are there any possibilities that the universe shape in a donut form or like a cylinder? ________________________________________________________________________

20. The link 2011 story reveal some facts about size of the universe.

21. Describe 5 facts about the size of the universe.

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22. Define the following vocabulary words:

Solar system:

Speed of light:

Big Bang:

Galaxy:

Cosmic microwave:

Thank you!!