Astro Unit 1.3 and 1.4

Astro Unit 1.3 and 1.4

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Astro Unit 1.3 and 1.4

Astro Unit 1.3 and 1.4

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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When looking in the night sky in the northern hemisphere, you notice that one star is hardly moving at all, we call these polestars. What is the name of our polestar?
Polaris
Ursa major
Alpha Centauri
The Sun

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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As you watch the polestar, you also notice some constellations, such as the Big Dipper, move around the polestar. What are these stars known as?
Northern Lights
Circumpolar Stars
Peripolestars
Chasers 

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The polestar wasn't always the polestar. The Earth's axis traces out a small circle over 26,000 years. What do we call this wobble of the Earth's axis?
Axis Wobble
Tilt
Precession
Seasons

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Ursa major is an example of a pattern found in the stars for which stories arose from ancient cultures. What do we call these patterns?
The Big Bear
Old Wives Tales
Folk Tales
Constellations

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Within Ursa Major we find the Big Dipper. What do we call patterns of stars found within larger images?
Small Constellations
Asterisms
Ursa Minor
Little Stars

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which grouping of stars do we find our current polestar?
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
Booties
Draco 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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There are 12 patterns of stars, such as Aries and Leo, that move across an imaginary extension of our equator called the ecliptic. What do we call these patterns, which were though to give Astrological predictive powers?
Constellations 
Ecliptic Stars
Zodiac
Astrological Predictors

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