Timeline: Our Understanding of the Solar System

Timeline: Our Understanding of the Solar System

Multiple Choice

Our understanding of the Earth and solar system has not changed since ancient times.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

model of the universe in which the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth

• earth-centric

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• solar-centric

Multiple Choice

model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun, which is at the center of the Universe

• earth-centric

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• solar-centric

Multiple Choice

Which technological advance led to the acceptance of the heliocentric model of the universe?

• lunar rover

• digital microscope

• manned spacecraft

• improved telescopes

Multiple Choice

Newton concluded that the following TWO factors keep the planets in orbit:

• gravity and weight

• gravity and inertia

• gravity and friction

• gravity and ellipse

Multiple Choice

the first artificial Earth orbiting satellite is launched by the former Soviet Union

• Apollo 11

• International Space Station

• Perseverance Rover

• Sputnik 1

Multiple Choice

1st mission to land a person on the moon

• Apollo 11

• International Space Station

• Perseverance Rover

• Sputnik 1