Astronomy Mid Term Review

Directly above Earth's equator lies ____________in the sky.

• north celestial pole

• south celestial pole

• celestial equator

• ecliptic

All celestial objects rise in the east and set in the west because

• earth is rotating from west to east

• earth is orbiting around the sun from east to west

The zodiac is tilted by 23.5 degrees relative to the Celestial Equator.

• true

• false

Over the course of a single night, stars move overhead due to _______.

• their motion around Earth

• The rotation of Earth on its axis

• the tilt of earth's axis

The celestial equator is always located _________.

• in the northern sky, at an altitude equal to your latitude

• running due east to due west, 90 degrees from the north Celestial Pole

What is the Celestial Equator ?

• an imaginary line in the sky, directly above Earth’s equator

• a band of constellations through which the planets and Sun appear to move

The North Celestial Pole is located _________.

• directly overhead

• directly above the geographic North Pole

• at the center of the celestial sphere

The daily spin of Earth on its axis is called ____.

• revolution

• rotation

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The “zodiac” is _________.

• a belt-shaped region of the sky surrounding the ecliptic

• a pink-colored glow above the horizon due to scattered sunlight

• a band of stars falling along the Celestial Equator

What do we call the line that the Sun traces across the celestial sphere?

• the celestial Equator

• the ecliptic