Historical Solar System Model

Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• aphelion

• parallax

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.

• heliocentric

• geocentric

• aphelion

• parallax

Who was the person that contributed to and helped popularize the geocentric model?

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

This image shows the:

• Geocentric Solar System

• Heliocentric Solar System

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Who came up with this model?

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo Galilee

• Ptolemy

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Who used a telescope to prove that the Earth could not be the center of the universe?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

The earliest models of the solar system with the Earth as the center.

• Heliocentric Model

• Geocentric Model

Greek philosopher that though the Earth was at the center of the solar system.

• Ptolemy

• Kepler

• Aristotle

• Galileo

Discovered that planets move in an ellipse pattern - not a circle.

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Aristarchus

Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Galileo