Chapter 30.1 Notes

Question 1

Who created the Geocentric Model?

Answer 1

Ptolemy

Question 2

Who created the Heliocentric Model?

Answer 2

Nicholas Copernicus

Question 3

Who provided evidence to support Copernicus Model by using a telescope?

Answer 3

Galileo Galilei

Question 4

Who discovered that planets travel in an ellipse?

Answer 4

Johannes Kepler

Question 5

Does the planet closest to the sun travel the fastest?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What unit equals the average distance from the Earth to the Sun?

Answer 6

Around 150 million kilometres

Question 7

What are the planets that are similar to Earth known as?

Answer 7

Terrestrial Planets

Question 8

What are the giant planets known as?

Answer 8

Jovian Planets

Question 9

Which planets are considered Terrestrial Planets?

Answer 9

Mercury, Venus, Mars

Question 10

Which planets are considered to be Jovian Planets?

Answer 10

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 11

What are the planets called that are between the sun and the asteroid belt?

Answer 11

Inner Planets.

Question 12

Which planets are the Inner Planets?

Answer 12

Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars

Question 13

What are the planets called that are outside the asteroid belt?

Answer 13

Outer Planets

Question 14

Which planets are the Outer Planets?

Answer 14

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 15

What are the planets classified as if they orbit between the Sun and the Earth?

Answer 15

Inferior Planets

Question 16

What are the planets on the outside of the Earth?

Answer 16

Superior Planets

Question 17

Which are the Inferior Planets?

Answer 17

Mercury and Venus

Question 18

Which are the Superior Planets?

Answer 18

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.