Q: What do you call the patterns and groups of stars in the sky that ancient people observed and made stories about?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

The stars that make up a constellation appear close to each other from Earth. In reality, they may be very distant from one another. Constellations were important to people, like the Ancient Greeks. People who spent a lot of time outdoors at night, like shepherds, named the constellations. They told stories about them. Pictured below is one of the most easily recognized constellations ( Figure below ). The ancient Greeks thought this group of stars looked like a hunter. They named it Orion, after a great hunter in Greek mythology.

 Choices:

- planets

- meteors

- asteroid fields

- constellations


A:
constellations