Models of the solar system

What is the term for Earth being in the center?

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• sun centered
• Galileo

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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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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 "Geo" Means?

• Sun
• Earth
• Milky way
• Back

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Who discovered that Jupiter had moons?

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Kepler

Why was it important that Jupiter had moons?

• It was the first direct evidence that not everything orbited around the earth

• It was the first evidence that turtles existed in the sky

• It was viewed as a good place to go on vacation

• It demonstrated that the Earth was the center of the universe

What new technology did Galileo use to make his observations?

• Telescope

• Microscope

• Eyeglasses

• Mirrors

What is the center of our solar system?

• The sun

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2