The Solar System

Question 1

Which two gaseous giants did Renaissance scientists such as Galileo know about?

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Jupiter and Saturn

Question 2

Why was it difficult for people to accept a heliocentric concept of the solar system?

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Aristotle was famous and his ideas were supported by religious teachings.

Question 3

How did Kepler describe the planets’ orbits?

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The planets’ orbits are elliptical.

Question 4

Look at the image of the solar system.

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Y

Question 5

Which describes one way that Aristarchus's explanation of the movement of objects in the sky was different from other scientists' earlier explanations?

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He argued that Earth rotates on its axis.

Question 6

Which event took place during the Copernican revolution, when most people started to believe in a heliocentric model of the solar system?

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Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

Question 7

Which correctly lists three scientists who supported the heliocentric model of the solar system?

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Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus

Question 8

Look at the image of the solar system.

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Mercury

Question 9

Look at the diagram of the solar system.

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retrograde motion

Question 10

Why was Copernicus’s heliocentric model not believed until Galileo and Kepler provided more evidence?

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The model was against religious teachings.

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