Solar System Models and The Sun

Which phrase best describes the HELIOCENTRIC MODEL of the solar system?

How is the rotation of the sun different from the rotation of Earth?

What are the most major solar storms and can cause extreme problems on Earth?

Who proposed the first sun centered model of our solar system?

Which of these best describes what happens during the process of nuclear fusion in the sun?

What part of the sun rotates the fastest?

Why does Aristarchus’ idea that the sun is much larger than Earth support sun centered theory

During a sunspot cycle, the number of sunspots change. What is the length of the sunspot cycle?

Which term best describes the movement of matter due to temperature differences in the sun?

Whose model is this picture?

Term describes the apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different place

Which statement is not part of Copernicus’ theory of the solar system?

The prefix Helio stands for what?

What is the farthest point in an orbit called?

Which of these features describe as a “arch from one place to another” from the sun’s surface?

Which of these phrases describes a geocentric solar system?

What are names of our moon?

Who got in trouble for proposing the heliocentric solar system?

Which of these models of the universe did Ptolemy’s system support?

Which of these tools enabled Galileo to study parts of the universe that had never been seen?

How did Copernicus describe the motion of the sun?

What layer encompasses the whole solar system?

Whose model is the picture?

Hot gases rise to the photosphere,then sink back down. What causes the transfer of energy?

How does Aristarchus’ view of the Solar System compare with Aristotle’s view?

What did Galileo’s telescope observations show?

The main energy transferred,takes 100,000 to 200,000 years togo through main layers of the Sun?

This comes out of holes in the corona?

After the hydrogen is consumed, what will be the primary fuel of the Sun?

Which of these elements makes up about 25% of the mass of the sun?

Which of these descriptions best defines the solar system?

What is closest point to the Sun, in the orbit called?

What did Galileo conclude from his observations of Venus?

Which element makes up more than 70 percent of the sun?

How does Ptolemy’s model of the universe compare with Aristotle’s model?

What sun layer is the one we see everything on?

The prefix geo stands for what?

Once gases reach the top of the convective zone, they cool. What happens to these gases next?

What causes sunspots?

Aristotle could not observe parallax, How might Aristotle have interpreted this problem?

who first used the wheel on wheel model of the solar system?

Who proposed elliptical orbits, aphelion, perihelion, and orbit length?

How does Kepler’s description of the paths of planets compare with Aristotle’s description?

What were the four moons of Jupiter called?

The sun is made up of six different layers. Which is the innermost layer of the sun?

Which information or method did Ptolemy use to develop a model of the Solar System?

Who said the Earth has three motions?

What is the modern day solar system called?

With which of these solar layers are solar flares MOST CLOSELY linked?

What is the PRIMARY ATOMIC REACTION that converts hydrogen atoms into helium atoms?