Constellations

What is a Constellation?

• Stars in a patterns in the day sky

• Stars in patterns in the troposphere

• Stars in patterns beyond our solar system in the night sky.

• Shooting stars that are in the night sky.

As the earth rotates on its axis, the constellations and stars in them appear to _________.  

• move across the sky

• stand still in the sky

• move around each other

• rotate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Is the Earth moving, or are the stars in the sky moving?

• The Earth is moving

• The stars move

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

People in the Northern Hemisphere do see the same constellations as the people in the Southern Hemisphere.

• True
• False

Which constellation is best known because it contains the “Big Dipper,” also known as the "Great Bear"?

• Ursa Major

• Ursa Minor

• Orion

• Polaris

As the earth rotates on its axis, the constellations and stars in them appear to _________.  

• move across the sky
• stand still in the sky
• move around each other
• rotate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What are star patterns in the night sky called?

• planets

• galaxies

• constellations

A cluster of stars in the sky that are grouped together in a particular pattern is called _____

• a constellation
• a zodiac
• an ecliptic
• the axis

The sky is divided into ____ constellations.

• 100

• 12

• 78

• 88

The sun, a hot ball of gas, is not a star.

• True

• False