Our Solar System

What can be thought of as "all the stuff held sway by the Sun’s gravity"?

• the Milky Way Galaxy
• our local group
• the Solar System
• the inner planets

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What percentage of the mass of the entire solar system is due to the Sun?

• 27%
• 54%
• 77%
• 98%

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After the Sun, what is the next most massive object in the Solar System?

• the Earth
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus

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Which ancient culture knew the Earth was a sphere, and had even measured its size?

• ancient Greeks
• ancient Romans
• ancient Egyptians
• ancient Mayans

In 1543, who published their work proposing a Sun-centered model of the universe?

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Brahe

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Who's astronomical observations were an essential contribution to Kepler's model?

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Isaac Newton

Who realized the planets moved around the Sun in ellipses, not circles?

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Johannes Kepler

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"Heliocentrism" refers to a model where _____

• the Earth is the center the solar system
• the Sun is the center of the solar system
• the Moon, Sun and stars are affixed to crystal spheres
• the Earth's shape is a plane or
  disk

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The latin term "sol" in Solar System refers to _____

• the Sun
• the solitude of space
• rotating planets
• the spin of the planets

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Who applied physics and calculus to determine how gravity worked?

• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Johannes Kepler

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