Heliocentric vs Geocentric

What is the biggest difference between the Geocentric Model and the Heliocentric Model?

• the shape of the planets' orbits

• the movement of the moon

• the center of the solar system

What is at the middle of a Heliocentric system?

• Mars

• Moon

• Sun

• Earth

Who proposed the Heliocentric system?

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Galileo

Whose book was published about the heliocentric model of the universe just after he died?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

What is the biggest difference between the Geocentric Model and the Heliocentric Model?

• the shape of the planets' orbits

• the movement of the stars

• the center of the solar system

• the number of planets

Which object is the center of the solar system according to Galileo?

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• Neptune

Who supported Copernicus's Heliocentric Model

• Galileo

• Plato

• Ptolemy

• No one

Who used a telescope to prove that the Earth could not be the center of the universe?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

Who supported the Geocentric system?

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Galileo

What is the name of this model?

• Heliocentric Model

• Geocentric Model

• Circle Model

• Aristotle Model

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