Scientists
This Catholic proposed the heliocentric model.
Who is Copernicus?
This object is at the center of a heliocentric model.
What is the sun?
This tool allows scientists to see things far from the veiwer.
What is a telescope?
These are two Catholic scientists who advocated for a heliocentric model.
Who are Copernicus and Galileo?
This is the only planet known to contain life.
What is Earth?
This Greek philosopher improved the geocentric model in 140 AD.
Who is Ptolemy?
This object is at the center of a Geocentric model.
What is the Earth?
What four planets are depicted in Ptolemy's Geocentric model?
What are Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter?
This person oversaw the conviction of Galileo and placed him under house arrest.
Who is the pope?
This object used to be considered a planet but was excluded when scientists redefined what a planet was.
What is Pluto?
This man discovered the laws of gravity and applied them to planetary motion.
Who is Newton?
In this model, Earth is not considered a planet.
What is the Geocentric model?
Using his telescope, Galileo observed that Venus had these, just like the moon does.
What are phases?
This is the biblical book that the early church based their first Geocentric models on.
What is the book of Genesis?
This planet contains a lot of iron, which gives it the reddish color we observe.
What is Mars?
This man improved the telescope enough that he could see the motions of Jupiter's moons.
Who is Galileo?
In this model, the Earth does not revolve. It is motionless.
What is the Geocentric Model?
These objects are in the final ring of geocentric and the early heliocentric models of the universe.
What are stars?
Prior to his death, this Catholic Scientist did not face opposition from the Church, even though he proposed a heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
This planet is known for having a "runaway greenhouse effect," which makes the surface very hot.
What is Venus?
This man proposed that the planets move in ellipses; not circles.
Who is Kepler?
This model was the first to be able to explain and predict the retrograde motion of the planets.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
These four moons of Jupiter allowed Galileo to further support the Copernican model.
What are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?
This is the name of the religious model that many early Catholics believed to be true prior to the adoption of the Ptolemaic model.
What is the Hebrew Model?
This is the original meaning of the word "planet."
What is a wandering star?