Which of the following best describes the term revolution as it pertains to Astronomy?

Astronomy Vocab 1

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
spinning like a basketball spinning on someone’s finger
the earth spins and this causes the day/night cycle
Mars appears to go backwards in the sky
spinning around an external axis
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This causes a ball to drop to the ground on earth as well as the orbits of the planets around the sun.
momentum
inertia
gravity
circular motion
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following best defines a closed orbit?
an orbit that never ends
an orbit which returns to its starting point
an orbit in which no other object can enter
an orbit that does not repeat itself
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This ideology was proposed to explain the motions of celestial bodies and put earth in the center of the universe
Earthcentrism
Earthisbestism
Heliocentrism
Geocentrism
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Copernicus developed a model which put the sun at the center of our universe, often coined
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Eccentricity
Ellipses
6.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
axis is half of the distance between the two farthest points on the circumference of an ellipse (2 words, no hyphen)
7.
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1 min • 1 pt
a small circle with a center moving around the edge of a larger circle; Ptolemy used these to explain the weird motion of Mars
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