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What is a frame of reference?
a) Help us compare our location to those of set objects
b) Help us compare our location to moving objects
c) Help us compare our location to objects in the sky.
d) Help us compare our location to objects on Earth.

What is a constellation?
a) A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern
b) A group of stars
c) A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern, that includes the North Star.
d)

What is altitude of an object?
a) Measure of its angle clockwise from north
b) Measure of its angle above the horizon
c) Measure of its angle clockwise from south
d)

What is azimuth of an object?
a) Measure of its angle clockwise from north
b) Measure of its angle clockwise from south
c) Measure of its angle clockwise from north
d)

What is the geocentric model of the solar system?
a) Where the sun is the center of the solar system.
b) Where Saturn is the center of the solar system.
c) Where earth is the center of the solar system.
d) Where Mercury is the center of the solar system.

What is the heliocentric model of the solar system?
a) Where the sun is the center of the solar system.
b) Where Saturn is the center of the solar system.
c) Where earth is the center of the solar system.
d) Where Mercury is the center of the solar system.

Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?
a) Aristotle
b) Galileo
c) Copernicus
d) Kepler

Who was the first to observe moons around Jupiter?
a) Aristotle
b) Galileo
c) Copernicus
d) Kepler

What did helped our ancestors identify the change in seasons?
a) The movement of constellations
b) The movement of the planets
c) The movement of the Sun
d) The movement of the Earth

What does an astrolabe measure?
a) Altitude
b) How hot the Earth is
c) Azimuth
d) How far away the Sun is

What does a compass measure?
a) Altitude
b) How hot the Earth is
c) Azimuth
d) How far away the Sun is

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