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WorksheetsSun, Historical Models, and The Solar System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the sun and the bodies that orbit the sun?
solar flare
sun spots
solar system
aphelion
p^2=a^3
Kepler's First Law
Kepler's Second Law
Kepler's Third Law
The model where the sun is the center of the solar system.
(a)
Loop of gas into the sun's atmosphere
prominence
sunspot
solar flare
nuclear fusion
The model where the Earth is the center of the universe
heliocentric
geocentric
What two astronomers believed in the geocentric model
Aristotle and Copernicus
Kepler and Aristarchus
Galileo and Ptolemy
Aristotle and Ptolemy
explosion of energy into the sun's atmosphere is
solar flare
parallax
perhelion
aphelion
Where an object is farthest away from the sun
perihelion
aphelion
What is the effect where by the position or direction of an object appears to differ when view from different positions?
sunspot
solar system
nuclear fission
parallax
Who is the one astronomer in this set that doesn't believe in the heliocentric model?
aristarchus
copernicus
kelper
ptolemy
galileo
What is the outer most layer of the sun?
radiation zone
convection zone
photoshpere
corona
What is the abbreviation for Astronomical Units
AN
At
AM
AU
What is the center of the sun call?
(a)
What is the third step of nuclear fission called?
Helium-3
Helium-4
Deuterium
What object rotates faster at the equator and slower from north to south
Earth
Mars
Sun
Neptune
