Solar System: Heliocentric and Geocentric

What is the biggest difference between the Geocentric Model and the Heliocentric Model?

• the shape of the planets' orbits

• the movement of the moon

• the center of the solar system

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What is the name of this model?

• Heliocentric Model

• Kepler Model

• Galileo Model

• Geocentric Model

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the name of this model?

• Heliocentric Model

• Geocentric Model

• Circle Model

• Aristotle Model

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is at the middle of a Heliocentric system?

• Mars

• Moon

• Sun

• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What is at the middle of a Geocentric system?

• Sun

• Neptune

• Earth

• The Universe

What does the word "Helio" mean?

• Earth

• Mars

• Sun

• Juputer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What does the word "Geo" mean?

• Sun

• Earth

• Milky way

• Back

These two astronomers confirmed Copernicus's heliocentric theory with more evidence.

• Galileo and Aristotle

• Kepler and Galileo

• Ptolemy and Kepler

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

Why is Kepler remembered?

• He thought the Earth was at the center of the universe.

• He recorded precise observations of planets and stars.

• He showed that all planets revolved the sun in elliptical orbits.

• He discovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

What did Ptolemy's and Aristotle's model have in common?

• Both models had Earth as the center of the solar system.

• Both discovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

• Both models had the sun as the center of the solar system.

• Both model had objects in solar system have epicycles.