Online reading assignment question: big bang tags (post-instruction)

Astronomy 210 Reading Assignment 13, Fall Semester 2010
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Wordle.net tag cloud for "big bang" (post-instruction) generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2749023/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.

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

[Responses have been edited to consolidate related common subjects.]

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160

boom, hot, fast, confusing, isawithappen
huge, new, theory, interesting, stars
beginning, dust, starclusters, galaxies
bigbang, expansion, birthofuniverse, confusing, epic
redshifts antimatter matter CMB nucleosynthesis
finitespeedoflight Hubbletime bigbang CMB noceilings
rapidexpansion redshifts particleaccelerators GeorgeLemaitre
theory
expansion, antimatter, annihilation, nucleosynthesis, reionization
universe start boom show theory
wowzers poof universe life stardust
space, elements, newelements, populationI, populationII
theory TVshow explosion planets God theory religion
explosion, formation, Earth, space, blast
beginning, hot, quick, expansion, awesome
stars, gravity, planets, hydrogen, lightwall
expansion, galaxies, CMB, Hubbletime, antimatter
nobang, backintime, TVshow
lookbacktime, finite, composition, nothing, purehydrogen
annihilation hydrogen reionization nucleosynthesis atoms
expansion, beginning, hot, dense, 14bya
theory, universe, formation, Olbersquestion, Hubbleslaw
beginning CMB expansion deuterium
hot, dense, rapid, expansion, 14bya, hypothesis
matter, mass, energy, rapid, expansion, antimatter
bigbang, Hubbletime, CMB, antimatter, boom
birth, universe
hypothesis, hardtoargueagainst, formationofeverything, hydrogen
expansion, Hubbleslaw, beginning, CMB, lookbacktime
expansion, universe, galaxies, starformation, hot dense
expansion hot dense CMB matter antimatter
beginning, universe, lookbacktime, reionization, stars
bigbang, crazy, dust, space, sweet!
bigbang stars blastoff
starsform, nucleosynthesis, planets, sun, Earth, moon
expansion, gas, dust, infinite, light
beginning spacetime
beginning universe
matter antimatter space gravity energy
explosion, theory, universe, expansion, years
theory, expansion, time, heat, lookbacktime
finite, redshifts, velocity, CMB, expansion
beginning start infinite energy universe
supernova galaxy solarsystem stars
ThomasErak, explosion, theory, TVshow, truth
huge loud dark manystars
expansion, explosion, redshifts, timecurve, lookbacktime
expansion, CMB, lithium, hydrogen, CalvinandHobbes
big, bang, theory, light, expansion
bigbang freakingawesome
nobang expansion theory 14bya matter
time, space, distant, light, spreading
loud, bright, big, bang, me
beginning, 14bya, CMB, fusionsoup, TVshow
1929thebigcrash explosion physics stringtheory evolution
warm, dense, kaboom, universe, matter
bomb, rocksflyinginspace
start, life, mass, TVshow, space
loud, prettycolors, chemicalsreacting, incomprehensible, space
delicious, ultimate, tasty, bigbang
boom, beginning, expansion, belief, power

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• Online reading assignment question: big bang tags (pre-instruction)
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