Early Models of the Solar System

According to Copernicus, the sun  

• Revolved around the earth
• Was the center of the Universe
• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

• Sun
• Comet 
• Jupiter
• Earth

  What does "geo-" mean?

• Earth
• sun
• Center

Who mathematically proved Heliocentricity?

• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Newton

Who proposed the theory of Heliocentricity?

• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Newton
• Kepler

Who popularized Heliocentricity?

• Kepler
• Galileo
• Newton
• Copernicus

Ancient Greeks believed, the earth to be the center of the universe. What do we call this model?

• Geocentric universe

• Heliocentric universe

• Copernican model

• Earthcentric

In the model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus', which object was at the center of the universe?

• Sun

• Earth

• Milky Way galaxy

• Mars

_____ was an early astronomer who published his heliocentric theory of the Universe.

• Aristarchus
• Kepler
• Copernicus
• Galileo

This scientist was the first to believe the Sun was the center of the solar system.

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Brahe