Florida Science 8th Grade 3.1-3.3

  What does "geo-" mean?

• Earth
• sun
• Center

Why did people believe in the Geocentric vs the Heliocentric solar system?

• Geocentric system had been around for a LONG time.
• People don't like change.
• There wasn't enough proof  to support the Heliocentric system.
• all of these answers are correct.

This image shows the:

• Geocentric Solar System
• Heliocentric Solar System

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What model does this represent?

• Geocentric 
• Heliocentric 

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the SUN.

• Heliocentric
• Geocentric

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

What does "helios" mean?

• Earth
• center of
• sun
• moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

This person discovered moons on Jupiter, which helped to support the heliocentric theory 

• Aristotle
• Copernicus
• Ptolemy
• Galileo

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

This person believed that planets move on small circles that move on larger circles

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Aristotle

For over 1,000 years, the church supported this theory -

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric

What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

• Sun
• Comet 
• Jupiter
• Earth