The ancient Greek who proposed a geocentric model of the universe is
Ptolomy
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
3. Multiple Choice
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Which scientist found that planetary orbits were elliptical?
Galileo
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
4. Multiple Choice
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Galileo approached questions in a fashion that is now known as what?
scientific theory
scientific method
earth science
scientific law
5. Multiple Choice
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When Galileo peered into the telescope and saw that Venus went through phases, what did this suggest?
The telescope must possibly be wrong.
Venus had a moon orbiting it.
Venus must be orbiting the Sun.
Venus had moons just like Earth.
6. Multiple Choice
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Which is not evidence for the geocentric model?
The sun moves across the sky from east to west every day.
The moon moves around the Earth every day.
The stars move across the sky every night.
The planets display retrograde movement in the sky.
7. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Whose heliocentric model is seen as the first step in the development of the modern models of the solar system?
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
8. Multiple Choice
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A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the SUN.
Heliocentric
Geocentric
9. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars. This includes thesun revolving around the Earth. This model is no longer supported.