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Solar System
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Which astronomers believed in the heliocentric theory?
Ptolemy and Aristotle
Galileo and Aristotle
Copernicus and Galileo
Kepler and Copernicus
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The astronomer who used a telescope to prove the heliocentric theory was
Kepler
Aristotle
Galileo
Copernicus
3
What does heliocentric mean?
Star-centered
Sun-centered
Earth-centered
Jupiter-centered
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What two things keep planets in orbit around the sun?
gravity and mass
weight and mass
inertia and weight
gravity and inertia
5
Spinning on an imaginary axis is called
revolving
returning
rotating
reminding
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What is the geocentric theory?
Sun-centered
Mars-centered
Earth-centered
Asteroid-centered
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The astronomer who discovered the shape the planets orbited in was
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
Galileo
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Who was the astronomer who used a telescope to look into the night sky?
Aristotle
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
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The name of the shape of a planet's orbit is called
eclipse
oval
ellipse
circle
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Which two astronomers believed in the geocentric theory?
Kepler and Copernicus
Aristotle and Ptolemy
Ptolemy and Galileo
Aristotle and Copernicus
