Heliocentric and Geocentric Models

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What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

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Sun

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What model does this represent? Geocentric, Heliocentric

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Heliocentric

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This image shows the:

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Geocentric Solar System

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A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the SUN.

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Heliocentric

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This person was a Greek philosopher who believed the universe centered around the Earth in a perfect circle.

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Aristotle

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This person believed that planets move on small circles that move on larger circles.

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Ptolemy

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For over 1,000 years, the church supported this theory -

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Geocentric

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What shape is an ellipse?

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An oval shape

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Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to challenge the church and develop the idea that the universe is ______________

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Sun centered

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During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

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Nicolaus Copernicus