Apparent Motion of Stars

What is apparent motion

• The way something appears or seems to stay in place.

• The way something appears or seems to move.

• The way a a spacecraft moves through space.

• How things move in zero gravity.

Why do we not see the same stars in the sky every night?

• Stars disappear and then reappear at random times.

• Stars are moving at a fast pace and it's hard to see them.

• The Earth revolves and rotates so we are always facing different stars.

• The earth moves on a line through the universe so its like riding in an airplane across the country.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Why do the stars appear to move across the sky at night?

• The Earth is rotating on its axis.

• The Earth is revolving around the sun

• Stars move like airplanes.

• They really don't, because of our EYESIGHT they only appear to move.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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True or False: Although the stars APPEAR to change position, their positions in the universe are NOT changing.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The stars appear to move from _____ to _____ since the rotation of the Earth is from west to east.

• east to west

• north to south

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Stars in the northern sky seems to circle around _________, the North star.

• Polaris

• Sirius

• Mars

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