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WorksheetsGRADE 12 (PHYSICAL SCIENCE) Q2: MODELS OF THE UNIVERSE
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
2. What Greek evidence helps prove that the shape of the Earth is spherical?
They notice the curve shadow of Earth on Sun during Solar Eclipse.
The travelers discovered that they saw different constellation as they traveled north or south.
The merchant saw the shadow in a distance when they travel.
The ship became larger and then its hull disappeared first become sail.
9. Who proposed that the moon and the sun revolve around Earth and all other planets revolve around the Sun known as Geo-Heliocentric Model?
Johannes Kepler
Claudius Ptolemy
Aristotle
Tycho Brahe
12. Who proposed that all planets including Earth revolves around the Sun also known as Heliocentric Model?
Johannes Kepler
Claudius Ptolemy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Geocentrism states that:
Saturn is at the center of the universe
Jupiter at the center of the universe
The sun is at the center of the universe
The earth is at the center of the universe
Heliocentrism states that:
the sun is the center
the earth is the center
the moon is the ceneter
the mars is the ceneter
Ptolemy's model of the universe:
None of these answers are correct
Did not include the Earth at all
Did not include the sun at all
Tried to explain retrograde motion of the planets through the use of epicycles
What is the biggest difference between the Geocentric Model and the Heliocentric Model?
the shape of the planets' orbits
the center of the solar system
the movement of the moon
The movement of the sun
Who discovered the Geocentric method?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
The church
The Earth its self
He proposed the first idea that the sun was in the centre of the universe, and the planet and celestial bodies revolved around the sun, in a circular path. He also proposed the idea that stars moved during the year. This theory never gained popularity in the ancient world.
aristarchus
aristotle
galileo
ptolemy
Most known as the first astronomer to posit the idea of a heliocentric solar system. This is a system in which the planets and planetary objects orbit the sun.P
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Brahe
His model is the combination of geo and heliocentric model of the unverse.
Tycho Brahe
Nicolas Copernicus
Aristotle
Aristarchus
What is the shape of the planet earth according to ancient people such as babylonians, hebrews, chinese?
circle
flat
sphere
ellipse
What is the name of the Earths moon?
Moon
Luna
Lunar
Aria
Who proposed the tychonic model of the universe?
Brahe
Kepler
Plato
Eudoxus
The center of this small circle in turn moves around Earth along a bigger circular path called the _________.
Epicycle
Deferent
Equant
Planets
What does the Heliocentric system look like?
The Geocentric model had to prove that the Earth was the center of the solar system. They said that planets follow these small circles in their orbit called:
ellipse
micro patterns
epicycles
dominant movement
