Star Vocabulary
This apparent line is where the sky meets the ground.
Horizon
Three prominant stars form the belt of this constellation.
Orion
This spinng motion of Earth makes stars appear to move during a night
Rotation
Polaris helps observers in this Northern Hemisphere find this direction.
north
True or False: the lines between constellation stars are real objects.
False, lines are imaginary.
This term means a star's angle above the horizon.
altitude
This constellation has a prominent W-shaped star pattern.
Cassiopeia
Earth's travel around this object changes the evening stars we can see through the year.
Sun
Facing north, this direction is to your right
east
Correct this claim:"Polaris is the brightest star in the night sky."
False: Polaris is not the brightest night sky star
The Big Dipper is this type of recognizable pattern.
Asterism
The Big Dipper lies in this Great Bear constellation.
Ursa Major
The stars appear to move westward mainly because Earth rotates in this direction.
Eastward
Polaris is 35 degrees above the horizon; your approximate latitude is this.
35 degrees north
Explain why stars in one pattern do not have to be close neighbors in space.
They can lie at different distances along our lines of sight
Astronomers divide the sky into 88 of these official regions.
Constellations
Polaris sits at the end of this asterism's handle.
Little Dipper
Polaris appears nearly fixed because it is close to the direction of this imaginary Earth line.
Earth's rotation axis
This cordinate tells how far north or south you are on Earth
latitude
This lion constellation as a pattern often described as a backward question mark and a triangle.
Leo
At about 15 degrees per hour, a star pattern appears to turn this many degrees in four hours.
60 degrees