Constellations Concept

Ancient people used constellations

• to travel in the dark
• to plant crops in the dark
• to praise and worship stars
• both to travel in the dark and plant crops

Our sun is responsible for

• life on all planets
• life on earth
• planetary chilling
• just light we can see

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Most constellations were based on

• Animal shapes
• Triangles
• Mythological characters and animals
• how many stars were in them

How many stars in our solar system?

• 3000
• 10,000,000,000
• 50,000,000
• 1

The stars appear to rotate from -------because of Earth’s rotation

• west to east
• north to south
• east to south
• east to west

The telescope was first used in the -------, however --------- was the first to turn it to the sky.

• Netherlands, Gandolf
• Galileo, Neterlands
• Galileo, 1600
• Netherlands, Galileo

The ---------------- takes pictures from space

• keck observatory
• hubble telescope
• keck telescope

During the day the stars are all behind the Earth therefore we cannot see them.

• False
• true

Stars are different colors because they are different in

• temperature and size
• shape and size
• reflect different types of light from our sun

Our sun is a

• giant red and orange star
• medium yellow star
• a bright orange star of medium size
• no one really knows the color