Heliocentric and Geocentric Models

What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

• Sun
• Comet 
• Jupiter
• Earth

What model does this represent?

• Geocentric 
• Heliocentric 

This image shows the:

• Geocentric Solar System
• Heliocentric Solar System

A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the SUN.

• Heliocentric
• Geocentric

This person was a Greek philosopher who believed the universe centered around the Earth in a perfect circle

• Copernicus
• Ptolemy
• Aristotle
• Galileo

This person believed that planets move on small circles that move on larger circles

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Aristotle

For over 1,000 years, the church supported this theory -

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric

What shape is an ellipse?  

• An oval shape
• A round shape
• A circle shape 
• Sun, moon and Earth lined up shape

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to challenge the church and develop the idea that the universe is ______________

• Earth centered
• Mars centered
• Sun centered
• beautiful 

During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

• Ptolemy
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus