Boy Scout Rank:  First Class   Requirement 1 Quiz / worksheet:  Finding directions at night

Answers to these questions are found on page 114 of the Boy Scout Handbook

 

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HISTORY For thousands of years people have imagined they have seen what shapes in star formations:

(a) foods that go into salads (b) types of cars (c) warriors (d) animals (e) maidens

(f) monsters

North Star Method

1.   A name for the group of stars that contain the big dipper stars is :
  (a) superior nova   (b) Ursa Major (c) big bright dude (d) the great bear

 

2.   How many stars form the big dipper's bowl?     (a) 3  (b) 2 (c) 5 (d)4

 

3.   How many stars form the big dipper's handle?     (a) 3  (b) 2 (c) 5 (d)4

 

4.   If you look closely, you might see that the middle star in the handle is really:

     (a) 3  (b) 2 (c) 5 (d)4   stars (Mizor and Alcor)

 

5.   Native Americans first thought these stars as a:       (a) Horse and rider (b) hammer and a nail (c) bow and arrow

 

6.   The two stars farthest from the end of the handle of the big dipper are called the"

     (a) far away stars (b) the pointer stars (c) the shiny boys (d) none of the above

 

7.   You can find the north star if you imagine a line going through the two stars extending upward  to a point about _______  times the span between the two stars farthest from the end of the handle:

     (a) 2 times  (b) 5 time  (c) 10 times (d) 100 times

 

8.   What lies directly below the north star?

     (a) the American continent  (b) The pacific ocean (c) China (d) The north Pole

 

9.     Draw the points that make up the big dipper on the back of this paper

Constellation Method

10.   Scorpius fills the southern sky in the : (a) Winter  (b) Fall  (c) Spring  (d) summer

 

11.   Orion rises in the southeast during ______ evenings:  (a) Winter  (b) Fall  (c) Spring  (d) summer

 

12.   Orion is shaped like a _____ which opens towards the north (a) clown  (b) horse shoe  (c) popsicle  (d) dog

 

13.   Cassiopei circles the North Star opposite the: (a)moon  (b) horizon (c) Big Dipper  (d) none of the above

Using the Moon 14.   The moon: (a) rises in the north and sets in the west (b) rises in the east and sets in the north (c) rises in the south and sets in the east (d) rises in the east and sets in the west.