Patterns in the Sky #2

Can you tell how big a star is by how bright or dim it shines?

• Neither distance or size has any affect on how a star appears.

• A star that is bigger will always shine brighter, no matter how far away it is.

• Distance can often determine how big or bright a star appears.

Earth turns around on an imaginary line called an ______.

• rotate

• orbit

• constellation

• axis

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The path that one object takes around another object in space is its. __________.

• rotation

• axis

• orbit or revolution

• phase

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Day and night are caused by ________.

• the Earth's rotation

• the Moon's rotation

• Earth's revolution around the sun

• The moon's revolution around the Earth

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Why do constellations look different in the sky at different times of the year?

• The stars gradually move around the earth throughout the year.

• The stars don''t look different because they don't move.

• The Earth's rotation around the sun changes how we see the constellations in the sky.

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Because of the Earth's revolution around the sun, what happens to how we see the constellation Leo over a year.

• It looks the same. There is no difference.

• Leo just gets bigger for half the year and then gets smaller the other half.

• Leo stays in one direction, but moves up and down in the sky.

• Leo appears to be turning in different directions and even disappears from the sky at one point.

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What pattern do we see because of the Earth's rotation

• The moon's phases

• Night and Day

• Eclipses

• No pattern.

Why does the moon's appearance change over time.

• The Earth's rotation

• The Sun's revolution

• The moon's revolution or orbit

• The moon doesn't change or look different.

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Two stars appear to be the same size in space. However, NASA says that one is three times bigger than the other. How can this be?

• The are the same size. NASA is wrong.

• One star is closer to Earth than the other.

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Which statement is true.

• The Earth is bigger than the sun, because the sun is just a small ball of light that moves through the Earth's sky.

• The moon is bigger than the sun because it can cover the sun during an eclipse.

• The Sun is bigger, but looks smaller than the Earth because of how far away it is from Earth.

• The Earth is bigger than all of the stars because they are just small, twinkling lights.

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