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Solar System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geocentric | Earth as the centre of the universe |
| Heliocentric | The Sun as the centre of the Solar System |
| Geocentric proposed by... | Ptolmey |
| Heliocentric propsed by... | Copernicus |
| Heliocentric was supported by the telescopic observations of... | Galileo |
| elliptical planetary obrits by... | Kepler |
| What causes day and night | the rotation of the earth's axis moving around every 24 hours |
| shortest day? | winter solstice |
| longest day? | summer solstice |
| moon most likely formed by the 'giant impact theory' | a chunk of matter supposedly hit the earth creating other chunks which formed the moon |
| what causes months? | the reveloution of the moon around the earth |
| this is most commonly observed in 2 ways | -phases of the moon -tides |
| All 3 bodies interact producing two pehomena: | solar ecplipse, lunar eclipse |
| solar eclipse? | when the Moon blocks the Sun from the Earth |
| lunar eclipse? | when the Earth blocks the Sun from the Moon |