Question

Mr. Gordon's science students are studying models of the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Mr. Gordon is using this model to show his students how the three bodies are arranged during a solar eclipse. One of his students commented that as a scale model, this model is not accurate. Is the student correct?

Answer 1

The Sun is too small.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Sun is too small. The Sun is 109 times bigger in diameter than Earth. If the Earth in the model has a 6" in diameter, then the Sun must be 6" X 109 in diameter.

Answer 2

Its very likely

Step-by-step explanation:

It is impossible to answer this question without the figure. Nevertheless It is highly unlikely that any model used in a classroom is a properly scaled model because the earth fits 30 times inside the moon's orbit and 12000 times in earth's orbit around the sun. So if the earth is represented as a 1 centimeter circle the entire model would have to be 240 meters wide!!!!! (More that 2 football fields)