Models of the Solar System

What is the term for Earth being in the center?

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• sun centered
• Galileo

The ancient Greek who proposed a geocentric model of the universe is

• Ptolomy
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Kepler

Which scientist found that planetary orbits were elliptical?

• Galileo
• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler

Galileo approached questions in a fashion that is now known as what?

• scientific theory
• scientific method
• earth science
• scientific law

Whose heliocentric model is seen as the first step in the development of the modern models of the solar system?

• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Ptolemy
• Kepler

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

• Heliocentric
• Geocentric

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars. This includes the sun revolving around the Earth. This model is no longer supported.

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric

The Word "Helio" Refers To?

• Earth
• Mars
• Sun
• Juputer

The Word "Geo" Means?

• Sun
• Earth
• Milky way
• Back