Space Club 3

Locating Constellations

Space Club 3

Multiple Choice

'As long as people have traveled, they have used the stars in the sky to help them find their way or ________.

• Navigate

• Migrate

• Rotate

• Iterate

Plan and direct the route or course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transportation, especially by using instruments or maps.

Navigate

Constellation

​any of certain groupings of stars that were imagined—at least by those who named them—to form patterns of recognizable objects or creatures in the sky.

Multiple Choice

When a star is rising, it is in the ____ of the sky.

• East

• West

Multiple Choice

That same star, as the Sun does, will set in the ____.

• East

• West

Multiple Choice

What is this constellation?

• Leo

• Aries

• Taurus

• Bull

Multiple Choice

What is this constellation?

• Taurus

• Leo

• Capricorn

• Hercules

Multiple Choice

Leo is the main constellation of what season?

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

Multiple Choice

What is this constellation?

• Hercules

• Leo

• Taurus

• Gemini

Multiple Choice

Migrate/migration is like navigate/___________.

• Rotation

• Navigation

• Navigator

• Navigatable

Multiple Choice

A group of stars that forms a pattern that has been recognized and named by scientists.

• Asterism

• Galaxy

• Constellation

• Supernova

Multiple Choice

A group of stars that forms a picture in the sky by connecting the stars.

• Nebula

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Asterism

Multiple Choice

The Great Square asterism is part of what constellation?

• Leo

• Capricorn

• Pegasus

• Hercules

Fill in the Blanks

How many regions of the sky are officially called constellations by the International Astronomical Union?

Fill in the Blanks

Review: What is the name of the specific group of stars that forms a pattern or a picture? Type in the answer.

Multiple Choice

One of the most famous asterisms in the Northern Hemisphere is called

• The Big Dripper

• The Big Dipper

• The Big Draper

• The Big Dip

Multiple Choice

The Big Dipper is made of the seven brightest stars of a constellation called the Ursa Major in Latin, or Great Bear. How do you say "great" in Latin?

• Ursa

• Major

Multiple Choice

What is another name for the North Star?

• Minoris

• Majoris

• Polaris

• Hubris

Multiple Choice

Polaris always shows where true _____ is, like a compass, and lies almost exactly over the _____ ____.

• South, South Pole

• North, North Pole

• West, Horizon

• East, Big Dipper

Draw

Put a star where North Pole is.

Multiple Choice

What is this constellation?

• Hercules

• Cassiopeia

• Aquarius

• Orion

Multiple Choice

Where is the Little Dipper in relation to Big Dipper in the sky?

• Below

• To the right

• Above

• To the left

Multiple Choice

The Little Dipper is the brightest part of the constellation Ursa Manor, to the Lesser Bear. How do you say "Bear" in Latin?

• Ursa

• Manor

• Major

Multiple Choice

A constellation can be made from several asterisms.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Choose all the stars that make the belt of Orion.

• Alhambra

• Alnitak

• Alnilam

• Mintaka

Multiple Choice

Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. When is a good time to look for Sirius according to the book you read?

• January

• February

• March

• April

Multiple Choice

Lyra means lyre, which means

• musical instrument

• a tool

• a type of weapon

• an old way to say "liar"

Multiple Choice

A very bright Alpha Lyrae is found in the constellation Lyra and is commonly called

• Riegel

• Andromeda

• Vega

Multiple Choice

When the constellation Orion is fully visible in the Northern Hemisphere, it means that ______ is coming.

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

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