Quiz on "11.3 The Discovery that the Earth Rotates Around the Sun"




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What did Aristarchus calculate?

The size of the moon
The distance to the moon
The size of the sun
The distance to the sun
The size of the earth
 

It is more likely that a small object rotates around a large one than a large on revolved around a small one?

true
false

What did the heliocentric model explain

Why planets changed color every day
Why planets deviated from the earth centric model
Why some planets suddenly seemed to reverse direction.
Why some planets suddenly changed in size.

Copernicus

Showed that the sun revolves around the earth
Showed that the earth revolves around the sun
Showed that Saturns rings revolve around the Saturn
Estimated the distance between the sun and each planet

How do we measure how far a star is from earth?

We measure how long light takes to get from the star to earth
We measure the stars parallax
We measure the stars perpendicity
We look at the stars spectrum