Sassafras Astronomy Chapter 16

Where are the twins going in Chapter 16?

What four topics the twins are going to study in India?

• Ursa Major

• Ursa Minor

• Constellations

• Orion

• Star Locations

Collections of stars that have been named and visible from Earth are called

• galaxies
• clusters
• nebulae
• constellations

Stars within a constellation can be​ (a)   to​ (b)   light years away from each other, even though they look a lot closer to us from here on Earth.

• fifty
• six hundred
• ten
• two thousand
• one hundred

All constellations have​ (a)   names and many were named after characters in​ (b)   mythology. All have a​ (c)   behind them

• Latin
• Greek
• story
• Arabic
• Egyptian
• fable

Astronomers once believed the constellations of stars resided in a globe around the Earth called...

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The sky is divided into ____ constellations.

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

Where are the Sassafras twins traveling to India?

No matter where you are on Earth, you see the same constellations.

• True

• False

Reorder the segments so the sentences can make sense.

• The celestial sphere

• is cut into two

• halves: the northern

• and the southern

• celestial spheres.