G6 U3: Astronomy Review

Earth’s revolution around the sun takes about one:

• Day

• Waning

• Year

• Month

Earth’s rotation on its axis takes about one:

• Month

• Year

• Day

• Waning

The phases of the moon repeats around once a:

• Waning

• Year

• Month

• Day

When phases of the moon are shrinking/getting smaller, we say that the moon is:

• Day

• Waning

• Month

• Year

Label the following solar system model

• Heliocentric

• Galileo model

• Geocentric

• Keplerian

Label the following solar system model

• Earth-centered

• Keplerian

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

Which astronomers believed in the GEOcentric model?

• Galileo and Copernicus

• Kepler and Galileo

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

• Newton and Kepler

Which astronomers believed in the HELIOcentric model?

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

• Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler

• Galileo, Newton, Ptolemy

• Copernicus, Aristotle, Kepler

Galileo was the first astronomer to believe in the heliocentric model and thought that the planets revolved around the sun in:

• Perfect circles

• Elliptical shapes

• Straight lines

• Squares

Kepler then came around and perfected the model to have the planets have:

• Circular orbits

• Elliptical orbits

• Random paths

• Square rotations