KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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sun centered
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earth centered
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -heliocentrism, a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The geocentric model states that the Sun and the planets move around the Earth instead of the heliocentric model with the Sun in the center. That’s just silly, right? Obviously the Earth orbits the Sun. Sure, the textbooks all say that the solar system is heliocentric.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sun is the center of our solar system and we revolve around it. The theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun is called the heliocentric theory, helio meaning ‘sun’ and centric meaning ‘in the center.