Models of Solar System/Universe

The term geocentric describes that _____________is at the center of the solar system.

• Sun

• Mars

• Earth

• Milky Way

Ancient observers that favored the geocentric model tried to explain how objects moved around the Earth using epicycles.

• True

• False

Who was one of the first scientists to develop the heliocentric model?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Kepler

Besides Earth, check all of the planets that Copernicus knew about at the time.

• Mars

• Venus

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mercury

Who decided that planetary orbits are not circular?

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

Which planet goes through phases like our moon?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Mars

• Jupiter

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

• Ptolomy
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Kepler

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

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

When Galileo peered into the telescope and saw that Venus went through phases, what did this suggest?

• The telescope must possibly be wrong.
• Venus had a moon orbiting it.
• Venus must be orbiting the Sun.
• Venus had moons just like Earth.

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Which is not evidence for the geocentric model?

• The sun moves across the sky from east to west every day.
• The moon moves around the Earth every day.
• The stars move across the sky every night.
• The planets display retrograde movement in the sky.