Models of the Solar System

What is the term for Earth being in the center?

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• sun centered
• Galileo

The ancient Greek who proposed a geocentric model of the universe is

• Ptolomy
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Kepler

Which scientist found that planetary orbits were elliptical?

• Galileo
• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler

When Galileo peered into the telescope and saw that Venus went through phases, what did this suggest?

• The telescope must possibly be wrong.
• Venus had a moon orbiting it.
• Venus must be orbiting the Sun.
• Venus had moons just like Earth.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Whose heliocentric model is seen as the first step in the development of the modern models of the solar system?

• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Ptolemy
• Kepler

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

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

• Heliocentric
• Geocentric

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars. This includes the sun revolving around the Earth. This model is no longer supported.

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric

The Word "Geo" Means?

• Sun
• Earth
• Milky way
• Back

What model did Copernicus and Kepler propose?

• The sun is the center of the universe not the earth

• The earth is the center of the universe not the sun

• The moon is the center of the universe

• There is a huge bowl with holes in it over the earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Who discovered that Jupiter had moons?

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Kepler