Question | Answer |
What is described as "all of space and everything that is?" | Universe |
What is the distance that light travels in one year? | Light Year |
What is a giant structure that contains hundreds of billions of stars? | Galaxy |
What is known as the speed in a given direction? | Velocity |
What is the energy that can travel directly through space in the form of waves? | Electromagnetic Radiation |
What is the theory that describes the initial "explosion or expansion" of energy that resulted in the formation of the universe? | Big Bang Theory |
What is the basic unit of matter? | Atom |
What is the study of the universe, and humanity's place in it? | Cosmology |
What is a form of energy found througout space that is responsible for the expansion of the university? | Dark Energy |
What is a dense matter that only exists in space? | Dark Matter |
If it has a beginning and an end, it is known as being...? | Finite |
Anything without a beginning or and end is known as being...? | Infinite |
This is an equation or law that explains that a velocity between galaxies and Earth is proportional to their distances away. | Hubble's Law |
Anything that has both mass and volume. | Matter |
The most widely accepted theory of the beginning of the universe | BIG BANG |
What is the universe called that humans are able to observe from Earth- (approximately 93 billion light years) | Observable universe |
What is known as "any observable occurence, usually an extraordinary event." | Phenomenon |
Anything that is not defined as matter, especially vast in outer space. | Space |
What is a specific place or position with a "view?" | Vantage Point |
What encompasses everything that physically exists through space and time? | Universe |
This is the science that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe | Astronomy |
The change in a wave frequency as the observer of the wave and the wave source moves to or from each other | Doppler Shift |
A project that recreates opportunities for particles to move faster than the speed of light. | CERN |
A substance that contains only a single type of atom | Element |
The universe that can be observed by humans | Observable universe |
Expressed as the Mass per a unit's volume | Density |
An attribute of matter that takes on many forms | Energy |
The process of growing outward, such as our universe | Expansion |
A natural phenonmenum by which anything that has mass attracts to one another | gravity |
The study of energy, matter and the relationship between them | physics |