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Ch. 30.1 Review Flashcards

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1
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Who developed the geocentric model?

A

Ptolemy

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Who came up with the heliocentric model?

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Nicholas Copernicus

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Who came up with evidence using a telescope for Copernicus’s model?

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Galileo Galilei

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Who discovered that the planets travel around the Sun in an ellipse?

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Johannes Kepler

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Do planets travel at different speeds in their orbits?

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Yes

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What is an astronomical unit?

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It equals the average distance from Earth to the Sun, about 150 km.

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What planets are similar to Earth?

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Terrestrial planets

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What planets are terrestrial planets

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Mercury, Venus and Mars

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What are gas giants know as?

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Jovian planets

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What are the Jovian planets?

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Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus

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What are the planets classified as that are located between the sun and the asteroid belt?

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Inner planets

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What are the inner planets?

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Mercury, Earth, Mars and Venus

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What are the planet classified as that are beyond the asteroid belt?

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Outer planets

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What are the names of the outer planets?

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

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What are the planets classified as that are between the Earth’s orbit and the Sun?

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Inferior planets

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What are the inferior planets?

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Mercury and Venus

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What are the planets classified as that orbit beyond Earth’s orbit?

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Superior planets

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What are the Superior planets?

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Jupiter,Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Venus

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