Our Solar System- Historical Astronomy/Vocab

Proposed geocentric system of astronomy.

• Brahe

• Kepler

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Created heliocentric theory.

• Kepler

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Newton

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Italian astronomer that used the telescope to study stars.

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Brahe

• Kepler

Studied for 20 years the position of the planets.

• Kepler

• Brahe

• Newton

• Ptolemy

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Determined that the orbit of the planets were elliptical.

• Kepler

• Brahe

• Ptolemy

• Newton

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

What is the correct order of the planets in our solar system.

• Sun, Earth, Mars, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto,

• Earth, Mars, Venus, Neptune, Pluto, Sun

• Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Pluto

• Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

According to the Greeks there were 5 "Wandering Stars", moving across the sky

• Earth, Moon, Sun, Pluto, Mercury

• Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Mercury, Saturn

• Sun, Pluto, Mercury, Saturn, Juptier

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

An object at rest, stays at rest, an object in motion stays in straight line motion unless acted on by a force.

• inertia

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The attraction of two objects, the strength of that attraction is based on the mass of the object.

• inertia

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

MVEMJSUNP

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

• Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3