Historical Models of the Solar System
Authored by Charles Martinez
Other Sciences
6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What is the term for Earth being in the center?
geocentric
heliocentric
sun centered
Galileo
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The ancient Greek who proposed a geocentric model of the universe is
Ptolomy
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which scientist found that planetary orbits were elliptical?
Galileo
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Galileo approached questions in a fashion that is now known as what?
scientific theory
scientific method
earth science
scientific law
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
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.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Whose heliocentric model is seen as the first step in the development of the modern models of the solar system?
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
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