Test 2 First 6 Shows
1. What is the point in the sky directly overhead?
A) Zenith
B) Revolution
C) North
D) Vernal Equinox
2. What is an angular unit of measure (60 per degree)?
A) rotation
B) revolution
C) minute of arc
D) second of arc
3. What is a stellar pattern named for animals and gods
A) celestial sphere
B) aphelion
C) constellation
D) solstice
4. What is the point on the celestial sphere
where the sun is farthest South?
A) summer solstice
B) winter solstice
C) asterism
D) equinox
5.What is a system for describing the brightness
of a star ?
A) perihelion
B) ecliptic
C) magnitude scale
D) asterism
6. What is the name of the orbital point
when a planet is closest to the sun?
A) ecliptic
B) perihelion
C) asterism
D) equator
7. What is the apparent path of the sun called?
A) Local
Group
B) zenith
C) ecliptic
D) equant
8. What is the slow change in direction of Earth's axis?
A) precession
B) rotation
C) rerograde
D) aphelion
9. What is the orbit point when a planet
is most distant from the sun?
A) zenith
B) ecliptic
C) vernal
D) aphelion
10. When does the sun cross the celestial
equator going southward
A) 20,000ly
B) summer solstice
C) autumn equinox
D) vernal equinox
