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1st Preliminary Exam in Earth Science

Read each questions carefully, then look for its correct answer on the box below just write the answers
before the number.

1. The Big Bang theory started on _____ with the proponents Alexander Friedman and Georges
Lamaitre.
2. According to the theory, around ____ billion years ago, there was nothing and nowhere.
3. Attractive force which binds the nucleus.
4. Force that binds atoms which can either be attractive or repulsive.
5. Force present in radioactive decay
6. Attractive force which binds the Solar system.
7. He found that stars are not uniformly distributed in space; instead they gather together
forming clusters called galaxies.
8. According to proponents, all the matter and energy in the universe are crammed into a tiny
compact point called as ________________
9. In ___, Amo Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered a background radio emission coming from
every direction in the sky.
10. The theory states that the universe is unchanging in time and uniform in space.
11. This theory is proposed by Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Paul Steinhart and Andy Albrecht; the
theory offered the unresolved problems revolving the big bang theory.
12. Larger chunks of rocks that come from the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars
and Jupiter.
13. The first known asteroid is named _______.
14. It is an icy body that releases gas or dust, contain dust, ice, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane.
15. Both asteroids and comets were formed early in the history of solar system about ____ billion
years ago.
16. Made up of dense, rocky, and metallic materials.
17. Made up of mostly of hydrogen and helium.
18. The most important evidence that scientists have used to gain indirect knowledge of earth’s
interior is the behavior of various shock waves known as _________
19. A sensitive instrument called ___ can record seismic waves from an earthquake even whenthe
earthquake is centered thousands of kilometers away.
20. Earth’s innermost section, contains one third of earth’s mass and has a radius of about 3360
kilometers.
21. Earth’s _____ has a radius of about 960 kilometers.
22. The ____ forms a 2400 kilometer thick band around the inner core.
23. With a thickness of approximately 2885 kilometers and representing nearly two thirds of
earth’s mass.
24. Earth’s solid exterior is the ____, which is composed of a great variety of rock types that
respond in diverse ways and at varying rates to surface processes.
25. It is composed of basalt, a heavy, dark-colored, iron-rich rock that is also high in silicon and
magnesium.

Big bang Theory 1920 strong force asteroids Jovian seismic waves
Steady State Theory 13.7 gravitational force Ceres Terrestrial mantle
The Inflation Theory singularity weak force comet seismograph
Electromagnetic force 1960 Edwin Hubble 4.5 core
Inner core crust
Outer core oceanic crust