Heliocentric vs Geocentric exit ticket

Ptolemy, Aristotle, and much of the ancient world believed which theory about the universe?

• Theocentered view

• Geocentric Model

• Heliocentric Model

• Modern Model

What invention of Galileo helped other scientists and astronomers prove the Heliocentric model was correct?

• The Telescope

• Spheres with holes in them

• Elliptical machine

• The Microscope

Our understanding of the earth, sun, stars and planets has changed over time. Which sequence best represents how our models have changed throughout history.

• Man centered to moon centered to earth centered to Modern

• Heliocentric to Geocentric to to Modern

• Geocentric to Heliocentric to Modern

• Universal to Newtonian to Geocentric

The Modern model is different from the Heliocentric model because it doesn't show what?

• The sun is the center of the universe

• Earth orbits the sun

• The sun is the center of the milky way

• The Moon and the Sun are the same kind of lights circling the Earth

We now know that the Sun is the center of our solar system, but our solar system is not in the center of our galaxy or the Universe. We also know that masses orbiting the sun have ______________ paths called orbits.

• Circular

• Triangular

• Elliptical

• Straight

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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