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Online reading assignment question: big bang tags

Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Revised Wordle.net tag cloud (revised) for "big bang" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2179745/Untitled).

Students have a weekly online reading assignment (hosted by SurveyMonkey.com), where they answer questions based on reading their textbook, material covered in previous lectures, opinion questions, and/or asking (anonymous) questions or making (anonymous) comments. Full credit is given for completing the online reading assignment before next week's lecture, regardless if whether their answers are correct/incorrect. Selected results/questions/comments are addressed by the instructor at the start of the following lecture.

(The following question was asked prior to lectures on cosmology and the big bang.)

Write down five words that describe or are associated with "big bang." Keep word phrases together with no spaces between them (e.g., "bigbang"). (Graded for completion.)

Student responses
Section 70158
theory false widelybelieved flawed accepted
temperature galaxies expansion atoms particleaccelerators
universe began dark matter time
itstotalbogus getreal
dinosaurs explosion crater meteor atmosphere
big big big big bang
expansion extremelyhighdensity extremelyhightemperature
inflation splat cosmicmicrowave expansion
creation explosion gravity universe biogenesis
beginning universe onepoint expansion inflation
creation theory life planets galaxy
theory explosion universe cosmos matter
sudden powerful explosive force creation
new explosion end big bright
theory explosion old space prehistoric
universe explosion us world gases
galaxies cosmological observation theory time
tvshow space starscrashingtogrther ascienceexperiment
giant pow crazy unlikely no
beginning relativity dense expansion bigcrunch
boom big bang loud explode
GeorgesLemaître hypothesis galaxy densities temperature
giantexplosion highdensity beganuniverse expansionofspace galaxycluster
bigbang collision asteroid exploding death
explosion collision universe cosmologicalmodel theory
nonsense impossible unrealistic retardmagnet poortheory
bullcrap antireligious illogical farfetched truth?
universe evidence expanding relativity assumptions
...
skyball lame 007 dieanotherday theory
big creation bang formation beginning

Student responses
Section 70160
thebeginning primordial universe cosmology expansion
huge bangin large beginning end
highenergy universe weird theory staticuniverse
boom dust bang bug planets
movingoutwarddirection oneblast
big bang dying theory floods
galaxy universe space expansion intense
big loud bang batman
beginning birth religion theory explosion
creation universe god gift evolution
boom explosion loud bigbang superexplosion
explosion
bigbang boom prettyawesome
creation massive life evolution supersize
thedevelopmentoftheuniverse
stupid madeupstory completelywrong disgraceful idiotic
redshift interstellargasclouds explosion galaxies wavelengths
explosion mass hydrogen dinosaurs JurassicPark
GeorgesLemaître explosive somewhatofanannoyance hydrogen helium
beginning loud bright radiation unkown
bad bright black nuclear historic
universe expanding singularity quasar lightyear
cosmology Hubbletime explosion evolution atoms
clusterofstars birthofplanets birthofthesun loud massive
explosion boom fire bigbang
theory elements collision stars formation
bigexplosion gravity formation boom


091104-bigbangtags
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Originally uploaded by Waifer X

Original Wordle.net tag cloud for "big bang" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1298566/Untitled).

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