Geocentric
Heliocentric
Eccentricity
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
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100

What does geocentric mean?

Earth in the center

100

What does Heliocentric mean?

Sun in the center

100

An eccentricity of 0 would make what shape?

Perfect circle

100

How many laws of Planetary Motion are there?

Three

100

Who invented the first telescope?

Galileo

200

Who created the original geocentric model?

Eudoxus

200

Who created the first Heliocentric Model?

Copernicus
200

An eccentricity of 1 would make what shape?

An oval

200

What is Kepler's 1st Law of Planetary Motion?

Objects orbit in ellipses

200

What was Copernicus' first name

Nicolaus

300

What shape were the orbits in the original geocentric model?

Perfect circles

300

What was the original reception to Copernicus' model?

Rejected, they hated it

300

Which orbit is less elliptical?

A - 0.8
B - 0.6

B - 0.6

300

What is Kepler's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion?

The farther the object, the longer the orbit. The closer the object, the shorter the orbit

300

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400

What shape were the orbits in the Ptolemic geocentric model?

Epicycles

400

Who helped create the modern Heliocentric model?

Johannes Kepler

400

Order these from most to least elliptical:
0.07, 0.7, 0.2, 0.5

0.7, 0.5, 0.2, 0.07

400

Put these planets in order from shortest to longest orbit:
Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Uranus

Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus

400

What did Galileo modify to create the telescope?

Pirate spyglass

500

Why did Ptolemy add epicycles to his model?

To try and explain what we now know as retrograde

500

What are the shapes of the orbits in the modern Heliocentric model?

Ellipses

500

What would be the eccentricity of an orbit with a major axis of 22 cm and the distance between the foci at 4.2 cm?
Round to one decimal place

0.2

500

What is Kepler's 2nd Law of Planetary Motion?

Objects will cover equal area in equal time within their orbit 

500

What is your teacher's last name?

Engle

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