Heliocentric & Geocentric

What is the heliocentric theory?

• The model where the Earth revolves around the Sun.

• The model where the Sun revolves around the Earth.

• The model where no celestial bodies move.

• The model where neither the Sun nor Earth revolve around each other.

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Who was the first ancient Greek astronomer to propose heliocentric theory?

• Pythagoras

• Aristarchus

• Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

In the geocentric model (the Earth at the center of the universe), which motion would occur?

• The Earth would rotate on it's axis

• The Earth would revolve around the Sun

• The moon would revolve around the Sun

• The Sun would revolve around the Sun

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In Ptolemy's 'geocentric' view of the universe the __________________ is at the center of the universe.

Ptolemy's geocentric view of the universe said that all bodies move in elliptical orbits around the sun.

• True

• Fales

Copernicus came up with the Geo-heliocentric theory of the universe.

• True

• Fales

In Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the universe, the ___________ is at the center of the universe with all bodies revolving around it.

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Until Kepler, people thought that all orbits had a ________________ shape.

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Kepler finally concluded that the shape of planetary orbits is ____________________.

In 1687, Isaac Newton published 3 laws of ___________________.

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