The Solar System

A heliocentric model of the solar system has the Earth in the middle, while a geocentric model of the solar system revolves around the sun.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Aristarchus supported the geocentric model

• True

• False

The path a body follows around another body is called...

• gravity

• orbit

• planetesimals

• solar nebula

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The sun is made up of what two gases

• nitrogen and oxygen

• hydrogen and oxygen

• hydrogen and helium

• helium and nitrogen

What is the process called when hydrogen and helium are forced together by gravity. This process creates energy in the form of light and heat

• solar nebula

• heliocentric

• planetesimals

• nuclear fusion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Aristotle thought that the solar system revolved around the...

• Earth

• Sun

Galileo had a telescope that further led people to believe that the solar system was

• geocentric

• heliocentric

What is a large body from which other planets form?

• planetesimal

• solar nebula

• gravity

• orbit

The force of attraction between two objects is called

• orbit

• planetesimals

• nuclear fusion

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What do we call the cloud from which the solar system formed?

• nuclear fusion

• planetesimal disk

• solar nebula