chapter 30 section one Flashcards
1
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Geocentric Model
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Earth is concidered the center and everything else revolves around it.
2
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Heliocentric model
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the moon revolves around the Earth and that the earth and other planet
3
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extra solar planet
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Planets in orbit around stars other than the sun.
4
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who created the Geocentric model
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Greek Philosopher plolemy
5
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Who created the Heliocentric Model
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Nicholas Copernicus
6
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Who provided evidence to support Copernicus’s
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Galileo Galilei
7
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Who discovered the planets travel around the sun in an elipse?
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Johannes Kepler
8
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Do planets travel at different speeds.
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Yes
9
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what unit equils the average distance from the earth to the sun which is 150 million Km
A
Astronomical Unit.
