Constellations

True or False: People have been looking at constellations in the sky for thousands of years.

• True

• False

People from long ago even made up stories about the constellations. What is a synonym for "long ago"?

• fragile

• asterism

• conflict

• ancient

About how many constellations have been officially recognized and named by astronomers?

• 25

• 70

• 88

• 101

Constellations are made up of clusters of-

• planets

• meteors and asteroids

• stars

• space dust

True or False: Our sun is considered a star.

• True

• False

Stars can make their own-

• heat and light

• liquid and gas

• biology and mass

• plasma and solids

A star's ____________ describes how bright it appears to us on earth.

• presence

• magnitude

• dominion

• length

What is the brightest star in our sky?

• Sirius

• Gemini

• North Star

• Orion

The Big Dipper has been used for navigation. That's because it always points toward--

• The Arctic Circle

• The Northern Lights

• The North Star

• The Southern Hemisphere

Ancient people relied on season constellations to help them remember-

• when to elect a new king.

• when it was a certain holiday.

• when their farm animals would give birth to their young.

• when to plant and harvest crops.

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