What I Have Learned
Directions: Fill in the missing terms. Write your answers in your activity notebook/on a separate sheet of
paper.
Many of these constellations have names that can be traced back to early Babylonians and Greek
civilizations, but nearly all cultures have different names for the constellations. Greeks called large
constellations (1)
which means (2)
and is prominent in the night sky all over
the world during winter. Early Filipinos visualized the same group of stars as (3)
a trap used
in hunting (4)
Christian Filipinos named the three stars (5)
Polaris, commonly known as (6)
is the brightest star in the constellation (7)
(little dipper). It is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.
Because it lies nearly in a direct line with the axis of the earth's rotation above the (8)
.. (9)
stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the stars of the Northern sky appear to rotate
around it. Long exposure times to capture the apparent motion of stars in the night sky is due to the (10)​