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| constellations | sections of the sky that contain recognizable star patterns |
| stars | Constellations helped people organize the sky and track the apparent motion of the _____. |
| culture | Names of constellations were determined by the civilization’s _________. |
| season | Constellations are seen in different places in the sky depending on the ______. |
| jigsaw puzzle | Constellations fit together like a _______ _________. |
| eighty-eight | There are ____ constellations. |
| Big Dipper | a constellation that can be seen in every season |
| Little Dipper | a constellation that can be seen in every season and contains the North Star |
| Cassiopeia | a constellation that can be seen in every season (the queen) |
| Gemini | the constellation that represents twins |
| Leo | the lion constellation |
| Pegasus | the flying horse constellation |
| Hercules | the hero constellation |
| Polaris | another name for the North Star |
| counterclockwise | Constellations appear to rotate in a _______________ direction around the North Star. |
| horizon | the line where the sky and the Earth appear to meet |
| altitude | the angle between an object and the horizon |
| zenith | an imaginary point in the sky directly above an observer on Earth |
| circumpolar | stars that can be seen at all times of the year and at all times of the night |
| North Star | an example of a star that is circumpolar |
| light year | the unit of length equal to the distance that light travels through space in one year |
| Edwin Hubble | person who in 1935 discovered that the Andromeda Galaxy, which is closest to our own, was past the edge of the Milky Way |
| far | Stars in a constellation appear close together but are actually ____ apart. |
