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Models & Intro of Solar System
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Model of the Solar System and Introduction to formation of the solar system
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What is a natural satellite?
planet
space probe
sun
moon
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Who gets credit for further development of the new heliocentric model?
Kepler
GalileoP
Copernicus
Ptolemy
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What contains 99.85% of the mass of the solar system?
planets' moons
sun
variety of small objects
planets
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One of the small asteroid-like bodies that formed the building blocks of the planets
sun
planetesimal
dwarf planet
planets
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Showing Kepler's model, what is missing?
Sun and Jupiter's Moons
Earth's moon
Earth's Moons and Jupiter's Moons
Sun and Venus
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Like ancient Greeks, this scientist believed the Earth was the center of the solar system.
Copernicus
Plato
Newton
Ptolemy
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What makes up the solar system?
Sun, Planets, Moons, Small objects
Sun, Planets, Moons, Stars, Small objects
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How old do scientists believe the solar system to be?
1 AU
150,000,000 years old
4.5 Million Years old
4.6 Billion Years Old
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Showing Copernicus's model, what is missing?
Sun and Jupiter's Moons
Sun and Earth's moon
Sun and Venus
Earth's Moons and Jupiter's Moons
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Literally translates to "Earth Centered"
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Geosphere
Heliosphere
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Showing Galileo's model, what is missing?
Sun and Jupiter's Moons
Sun and Earth's moon
Sun and Venus
Earth and Earth's Moon
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Unit used to measure distance in space that is equivalent to distance between Sun and Earth
Miles
Astronomical Unit
Meters
Kilometers
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A term meaning the sun is the center of the solar system.
geosphere
heliocentric
heliosphere
geocentric
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Whose model is displayed?
Ptolemy
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
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This model was finally accepted because it BETTER predicted the motion of celestial bodies.
Geosphere
Geocentric
Ptolemy
Heliocentric
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Whose model is displayed?
Ptolemy
Kepler
Copernicus
Galileo
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What is another name for ellipse?
Square
Circle
Triangle
Oval
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An object that orbits the sun and is spherical but has not cleared out its orbit
planet
star
planetesimal
dwarf planet
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1 astronomical unit is the distance between which 2 objects?
Moon and Earth
Sun and Earth
Sun to Pluto
Sun and Moon
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This solar system model was accepted for more than 1500 years.
Hyrosphere
Geosphere
Geocentric
Heliocentric
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What force pulled a cloud of gas, dust, rock and ice together to form the solar system?
Nuclear
Friction
Magnetic
Gravity
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Whose model is displayed?
Ptolemy
Galileo
Kepler
Copernicus
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Who replaced perfect circles with ellipses for planetary orbits in the heliocentric model?
Galileo
Kepler
Ptolemy
Plato
