The Experiments and Missions Designed to Study Dark Energy

This quiz is designed to assess your knowledge about the experiments and missions specifically designed to study dark energy.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a space-based mission designed to study dark energy?

  1. Hubble Space Telescope
  2. Chandra X-ray Observatory
  3. James Webb Space Telescope
  4. Dark Energy Survey
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the ground-based telescope array used to study dark energy?

  1. Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  2. Dark Energy Survey
  3. Subaru Telescope
  4. Keck Telescope
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a satellite mission designed to study dark energy?

  1. Planck Surveyor
  2. Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  3. Cosmic Background Explorer
  4. All of the above
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the expansion rate of the universe?

  1. Supernova Cosmology Project
  2. High-z Supernova Search Team
  3. Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  4. Dark Energy Survey
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the gravitational lensing of distant galaxies?

  1. Weak Lensing Survey
  2. Strong Lensing Survey
  3. Cosmic Shear Survey
  4. All of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation?

  1. Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  2. Planck Surveyor
  3. Cosmic Background Explorer
  4. BICEP2
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the redshift of distant galaxies?

  1. Redshift Survey
  2. Photometric Redshift Survey
  3. Spectroscopic Redshift Survey
  4. All of the above
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the abundance of galaxy clusters?

  1. Galaxy Cluster Survey
  2. X-ray Cluster Survey
  3. Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Survey
  4. All of the above
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the growth of structure in the universe?

  1. Galaxy Clustering Survey
  2. Weak Lensing Survey
  3. Cosmic Shear Survey
  4. All of the above
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the gravitational wave background?

  1. Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
  2. Virgo Interferometer
  3. KAGRA
  4. All of the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the properties of dark matter?

  1. Weak Lensing Survey
  2. Strong Lensing Survey
  3. Cosmic Shear Survey
  4. Direct Detection Experiment
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the mass of neutrinos?

  1. KATRIN
  2. EXO-200
  3. LUX
  4. XENON1T
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the cosmic microwave background radiation?

  1. Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  2. Planck Surveyor
  3. Cosmic Background Explorer
  4. All of the above
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the experiment designed to measure the Hubble constant?

  1. Hubble Space Telescope
  2. Chandra X-ray Observatory
  3. James Webb Space Telescope
  4. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a type of dark energy experiment that measures the gravitational lensing of quasars?

  1. Weak Lensing Survey
  2. Strong Lensing Survey
  3. Cosmic Shear Survey
  4. Quasar Lensing Survey