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WorksheetsGeocentric vs Heliocentric
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What model is where the earth is in the middle of our universe?
a)
Heliocentric Model
b)
Geocentric Model
c)
Moon phases
d)
Tidal Phases
2.
What Model is where the sun is the center of the universe?
a)
Geocentric
b)
Heliocentric
c)
Earth's rotations
d)
Earth's planets
3.
What does "geo-" mean?
a)
Earth
b)
sun
c)
Center
4.
Why did people believe in the Geocentric vs the Heliocentric solar system?
a)
Geocentric system had been around for a LONG time.
b)
People don't like change.
c)
There wasn't enough proof to support the Heliocentric system.
d)
all of these answers are correct.
5.
This image shows the:
a)
Geocentric Solar System
b)
Heliocentric Solar System
6.
Who's book was published about the heliocentric solar system just after he died?
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Copernicus
7.
Copernicus' view of the universe
a)
Galaxy
b)
Geocentric
c)
Astronomy
d)
Heliocentric
8.
What model does this represent?
a)
Geocentric
b)
Heliocentric
9.
What does "helios" mean?
a)
Earth
b)
center of
c)
sun
d)
moon
10.
The study of the universe
a)
Galaxy
b)
Geocentric
c)
Astronomy
d)
Heliocentric
11.
Johannes Kepler
a)
recorded precise observation using large tools
b)
developed the Laws of Planetary Motion
c)
was the 1st to use a Telescope
d)
developed the Law's of Gravity
12.
Issac Newton
a)
recorded precise observation using large tools
b)
developed the Laws of Planetary Motion
c)
was the 1st to use a Telescope
d)
developed the Law's of Gravity
13.
Built a telescope and made discoveries which changed astronomy; discovered 4 moons of Jupiter
a)
Galileo Galilei
b)
Aristotle
c)
William Herschel
d)
Claudius Ptolemy
14.
The sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it.
a)
Geocentric
b)
Centripetal Force
c)
Sunspot
d)
Solar System
15.
A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.
a)
Solar Flare
b)
Orbit
c)
Gravity
d)
Centripetal Force
16.
The path that a body follows as it travels around another body.
a)
Solar System
b)
Prominence
c)
Orbit
d)
Geocentric
17.
For over 1,000 years, the church supported this theory -
a)
Geocentric
b)
Heliocentric
18.
This person believed that planets move on small circles that move on larger circles
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Copernicus
c)
Galileo
d)
Aristotle
19.
A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the SUN.
a)
Heliocentric
b)
Geocentric
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