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Models of the Solar System
Models of the Solar System
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Model of the Solar System
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1
A Greek astronomer who believed in the geocentric model was ______________________
Galileo
Newton
Ptolemy
Kepler
2
The first astronomer to use a telescope was _______________.
Brahe
Copernicus
Galileo
Kepler
3
Which astronomer(s) helped prove the heliocentric model was correct?
Brahe
Galileo
Newton
Copernicus
4
In the geocentric model, _____________________ is at the center of revolving planets and stars
The Earth
The Moon
Ms. Fasci
the Sun
5
The 1st law of planetary motion states that the orbits of the planets are ___________________.
ellipses
not continuous
undefined
stretched
6
After years of calculation _______________ found the orbit of each planet is an ellipse.
Copernicus
Kepler
Davidson
Brahe
7
The astronomer ________ developed the idea that planets moved around the sun.
Braun
Copernicus
da Vinci
Galileo
8
Kepler came up with the laws of planetary __________________.
revolution
motion
eliptical
rotation
9
Galileo also discovered ___________, ________________, _________________
phases of Venus
martians
sun spots
craters on the moon
10
The model that states the arrangement of how planets move around the sun is called the _______.
telescopic model
heliocentric model
rotation model
geocentric model