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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is apparent motion
The way something appears or seems to stay in place.
The way something appears or seems to move.
The way a a spacecraft moves through space.
How things move in zero gravity.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why do we not see the same stars in the sky every night?
Stars disappear and then reappear at random times.
Stars are moving at a fast pace and it's hard to see them.
The Earth revolves and rotates so we are always facing different stars.
The earth moves on a line through the universe so its like riding in an airplane across the country.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Why do the stars appear to move across the sky at night?
The Earth is rotating on its axis.
The Earth is revolving around the sun
Stars move like airplanes.
They really don't, because of our EYESIGHT they only appear to move.
- 4. Multiple Choice
True or False: Although the stars APPEAR to change position, their positions in the universe are NOT changing.
TRUE
FALSE
- 5. Multiple Choice
The stars appear to move from _____ to _____ since the rotation of the Earth is from west to east.
east to west
north to south
- 6. Multiple Choice
Stars in the northern sky seems to circle around _________, the North star.
Polaris
Sirius
Mars
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