Earth and the Solar System

The distances in the solar system are too great to make a model accurate to distance that has inner planets visible.

__________ are bodies that orbit larger bodies such as planets, dwarf planets, or asteroids, not the sun.

The invention of the ___________ resulted in major changes in the field of astronomy

The picture shows a model of the solar system. Which statement describes a limitation of the model?

Dwarf planets are smaller than planets. What is another way that dwarf planets are different?

Scale lets us compare familiar objects and distances to astronomical objects and distances

Galileo Galilei combined two magnifying lenses to make the first ________in 1609.

Early astronomers saw that stars in the sky seemed to move across the sky as constellations. How is this explained?

Tycho Brahe built huge instruments that allowed him to take extremely precise measurements of stars and planets.

Galileo observed characteristics of Earth’s moon and identified moons around _________.

The picture represents a ____________model of the solar system because all objects shown are orbiting the sun.

Parallax is the apparent shift in position of an object when it is viewed from different points.

The heliocentric model, the sun is at the center of the solar system with the planets orbiting it.

Moons are small, rocky or metallic bodies. They may be debris left over from when the solar system formed.

The table shows events that led to the theory that the sun is the center of the solar system. Which sequence is correct?

The dotted lines in the picture show orbital paths of objects. Which object orbits object E?

Telescopes allowed scientists to see distant or small objects for the first time and to see larger objects more clearly.

As astronomer observes an object in space that that orbits the sun and is made of ice and rock.What is the he observing?

Aristotle developed the geocentric model of the solar system.

An astronomer uses parallax to determine a star’s distance from Earth. Which statement correctly describes parallax