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Who was the person who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system
Copernicus
Kepler
Aristarchus
Aristotle
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_____ demonstrated all bodies, regardless their mass, fall at the same rate.
Kepler
Galileo
Aristotle
Aristarchus
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The sun and all of the bodies that orbit the sun is the
Universe
Asteroid
Moon
Solar system
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Who improved the telescope in 1609?
Aristotle
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
Galileo
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What does parallax mean?
Shifting in apparent position
Changing in size
How we look at stars
Different views
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Parallax can be seen with the naked eye
False
True
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What is the Geocentric model?
Sun-centered
Earth-centered
The Moon at the center with the sun and planets circling it
The Earth at the center with the sun and planets circling it
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_____ made significant improvements on the newly invented telescope.
Aristotle
Galileo
Kepler
Aristarchus
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Who used the idea of the "wheels-on-wheels" system
Galileo
Kepler
Ptolemy
Copernicus
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_____ adopted ______ idea that planetary paths should be perfect circles.
Copernicus, Ptolemy
Ptolemy, Copernicus
Galileo, Kepler
Kepler, Ptolemy
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The model that states the arrangement of how planets move around the sun is called the
Spinning model
Rotating model
Heliocentric model
Geocentric model
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_____ has a book that is based on observations of the planets going back to 800 years.
Copernicus
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Ptolemy
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____ the scientist approached questions in the fashion that today we call scientific methods.
Galileo
Kepler
Copernicus
Aristarchus
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What is the Heliocentric model?
The Earth orbiting the sun
The Earth and the other planets orbit the sun
The Earth in the center with planets orbiting it
The sun orbiting the planets
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______ attempted to measure the relative distances to the moon and sun.
Galileo
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
Kepler