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Name: ____________________________ Miss Dixon 6th Grade Science Ch. 13 Test Review Please define each of the following words 1. Astronomy: 2. Constellation: 3. Pleiades: 4. Light pollution: 5. Light year: 6. Astronomical unit: 7. Rotation: 8. Latitude: March 31, 2017 9. If Peter is sailing at night out at sea and measures that Polaris is 5 fists above the horizon, what is Peter’s latitude? 10. A star is 12,000,000,000,000 miles away. How many light years away is it? 11. One astronomical unit equals the distance between the ______________ and the_______________. 12. Explain why the stars appear to be moving at night, but in reality they are not. 13. Describe why Polaris never moves compared to the other stars. 14. Sara is stargazing and notices that the line between Polaris and Merak & Dubhe has moved from 1:00 to 12:00 on her imaginary clock in the sky. How many hours have passed? Name the Constellation to which each of the following stars belongs Betelgeuse: Aldebaran: Sirius: Procyon: Polaris/North Star: Merak: Dubhe: Constellations to Identify *Extra credit if you can identify three other constellations that we did not study in class 15. Orion 16. Canis Major 17. Canis Minor 18. Taurus 19. Ursa Major/Big Dipper 20. Ursa Minor/Little Dipper 21. Cassiopeia
