Planets!
A chart or picture that helps you find stars and constellations in the night sky.
What is Sky map
This constellation is named after a famous hunter and has a belt of three stars.
What is Orion
Day and night happen because the Earth does this on its axis every 24 hours.
What is rotate or spin?
The spinning of Earth around its axis, which causes day and night.
What is rotation?
This “Big” constellation looks like a large spoon and helps find the North Star.
What is the Big Dipper?
The tilt of Earth’s axis causes these on our planet.
Seasons
How long does it take Earth to make one full rotation around the sun?
What is 24 hours
The path Earth takes as it moves around the Sun.
What is orbit?
Stars form these large groups that form patterns in the sky.
What are constellations?
When your location on Earth faces away from the Sun, you experience this.
What is night time?
What causes the Sun to appear to move across the sky during the day
What is Earths rotation
The Moon’s phases change based on its position relative to these two objects.
What is the Earth and the Sun
An invisible line through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole that Earth spins around.
What is axis?
this is the closest star to the Earth.
What is the Sun?
When Earth is tilted toward the Sun, it is this season in that hemisphere.
What is summer?
The Sun rises in this direction every morning.
What is east?
Sometimes the Moon appears bigger or smaller because it is moving in this path around Earth
What is an orbit?
A group of stars that form a picture or pattern in the sky, often named after animals or stories.
What is a constellation?
These stars are only visible during certain times of the year.
What are seasonal stars?