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Historical Models of the Solar System
Historical Models of the Solar System
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Review of terms and astronomers involved in the modeling of the solar system.
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An Italian astronomer who made telescope improvements and observed Jupiter’s moons.
Galileo
Ptolemy
Kepler
Aristotle
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Which astronomer first observed the phases of Venus?
Aristotle
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
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The sun and all of the bodies that orbit the sun.
Geocentric system
Sun-Planet system
Orbital system
Solar system
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This astronomer formulated three principals or laws describing the orbit of planets.
Aristarchus
Galileo
Ptolemy
Kepler
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Whose heliocentric model is the first step in the development of modern solar system models?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galileo
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A Greco-Egyptian astronomer who developed a detailed geocentric model.
Copernicus
Galileo
Kepler
Ptolemy
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Earth and the other planets orbit the sun.
Geocentric model
Sun-Planet model
Orbiting model
Heliocentric model
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A German astronomer who replaced circles with ellipses in a heliocentric model.
Kepler
Copernicus
Aristotle
Aristarchus
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A Greek philosopher who thought that Earth was the center of all things.
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Copernicus
Kepler
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Ancient astronomer who is reported to have proposed the heliocentric model.
Copernicus
Kepler
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
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Identify the model.
Geocentric model
Heliocentric model
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Identify the model.
Geocentric model
Heliocentric model
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Earth-centered system, with the sun, moon, and planets circling it.
Earth-center model
Heliocentric model
Orbiting model
Geocentric model
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An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations.
Solar shift
Parallax
Star displacement
Celestial movement
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Greek astronomer who attempted to measure the relative distances to the moon and sun.
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
Galileo
Kepler
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A Polish astronomer who developed a detailed heliocentric model.
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Ptolemy
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Whose geocentric model of the solar system was accepted for 1,400 years?
Aristotle
Galileo
Kepler
Aristarchus
