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

Astronomy 210 Reading Assignment 13, Spring Semester 2011
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, spring semester 2011 (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3496290/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

dust space planets gravity timemachine
big levels hydrogen universe stars
theory, TVshow, dontknowmuch, interesting, bang
beginning, formation, theory, finite, time
bang big theory space protons
big huge massive ginormous bang
expansion, explanation, truth, annihilation, boom
nucleosynthesis, photon, CMB, universe, galaxies
explosion whoadude bigbang galaxyformation
big, explosion, outward, universe, creation
beginning, boom, gas, dust, stars
baloney witchcraft voodoo juju magic
theory, nottrue, stars, gases, cold
generalrelativity Leonard Sheldon universe expansion
stars, explosion, beginning, theory, boom
expansion explosion formation planets stars
expansion, fusion, energy, universe, origin
birth, universe, explosion, dust, expansion
stars, years, billion, light, telescopes
big
theory, universe, expansion, supernovas, creation
big large many weird black
explosion, dense, expansion, sex, bigbang
Hubbletime antimatter recombination
discovery universe
expansion, universe, origin
crazy mystery insaneinthemembrane
cosmology science galaxies redshifts temperature
bang boom
expansion, Hubble, redshifts, distance, theory
life, beginning, discovery, hypothesis, TVshow
expansion, redshifts, galaxies, hot dense beginning, recombination, metalpoor
universe planets everything MilkyWay beginning
cosmic, hot, dense, universe, expand
atoms metals rocks gravity time
explosion, bang, big, universe, theory
bigbang everything universe start
matter antimatter hydrogen dust creation
dense hot
loud MilkyWay monkeys gases stars
big, lookbacktime, idk
TVshow, big, controversial, start, new
bigbang, universe, start, big, boom
universe, explanation, old, science, space
bigbang lol
expansion, Hubblelaw, galaxies, MilkyWay, cosmology
big, bang, large, noexplosion, awesome
big, bang, universe, expansion, galaxies, space
idk
needtoreview
God, nottrue, creation, story, dust
idk
secondsafter notexplosion space universe TVshow
constant, everywhere, big, powerful, amazing
temperature, matter, antimatter, Sheldon, Leonard
billionsofyears, religion, evolution, dense, beginning,
start stars dust
theory science explosion universe galaxies
fake poortheory lie didnthappen nottrue
expansion, slow, anticlimactic, unknown, winning
explosion beginning boom big start
explosion, beginning,
expansion implosion stuff bright stars
bigbang God expansion grow
God creation
lightspeed, gaps, redshifts, Hubblelaw, finite
beginning, explosion, expansion
hydrogen nucleosynthesis darkage longtime clumptogether
interesting, theory, inflation, endless, reionization
lookbacktime, cold, hot
TVshow again midterm beginning stars
big, explosion, hot, dense, rapid.
theory, expansion, lookbacktime, dust, metals