Lesson 1: The Solar System TEST

Earth is the center of the revolving planets and stars.

• Heliocentric Model

• Geocentric Model

• Copernican Model

• Solar System

Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars and supported the heliocentric theory.

• Tycho Brahe

• Ptolemy

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

Danish astronomer who collected data to prove that Copernicus was correct.

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galilei

• Ptolemy

• Johannes Kepler

A Greek astronomer who developed the Geocentric Model.

• Galileo Galilei

• Tycho Brahe

• Johannes Kepler

• Ptolemy

Polish astronomer who believed that the Sun is at the center of the Universe, and all the planets revolve around the Sun in a circular pattern.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

German astronomer who proved the orbit of each planet to be elliptical or oval shape.

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolas Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The sun is the center of the revolving planets and stars.

• Heliocentric Model

• Copernican Model

• Solar System

• Geocentric Model

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Ptolemy further developed the model that Earth was the center of the universe.

• True

• False

Johannes Kepler further developed the model that the planets orbit the sun in an elliptical orbit.

• True

• 
  False

Which of the following is not found in our solar system?

• 8 planets

• North Star

• Sun

• asteroids & comets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3