Science Form 3 Chapter 10.1

What is the term for Earth being in the center?

• Geocentric

• Sun centered

• Heliocentric

• Galileo

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

• Ptolomy

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

Which scientist found that planetary orbits were elliptical?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Kepler

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

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• 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

• Sun

• Mars

• Jupiter

The word *Geo" means?

• Sun

• Milky way

• Earth

• Back

What model did Copernicus and Kepler propose?

• The sun is the center of the universe not the earth

• The moon is the center of the universe

• The earth is the center of the universe not the sun

• There is a huge bowl with holes in it over the earth

What do scientists do when new information doesn't have fit their existing models?

• They adapt or change their model to fit the new information once they have confirmed it

• They put their fingers in their ears and go lalalala

• They ignore the new information

• They immediately throw everything they know out the window