because when he looked at the sky he saw the stars he connected the stars and he connected one and he called it big dipper because he was the first one to discover the big dipper.
The Big Dipper is known in the Northern Hemisphere as The Plough(Plow.American spelling) as the main Stars in the constellation resemble an ancient ploughing farm machine
The two stars Dubhe and Merek do. They're the two stars
at the end of the 'bowl' opposite the 'handle'.
Both of those constellations are actually just what we see. In actuality, those stars may be just as far apart from each other as they are from us, and are most likely hundreds/thousands of light-years away from each other. To sum it all up, all of those stars are different distances from the Earth.
The best time to see a constellation in the night sky is after the sunset. The best time to see a constellation in the morning is before sunrise.
The parts when it's night. The big dipper is a circumpolar asterism and is visible year-round from most locations north of the tropics.
If you spend any time outside at night looking at the stars, you may have noticed
that they're constantly moving. The Big Dipper turns completely around the Pole Star
every day, almost like the hand of a huge clock. So, if you pick any star at all in the sky,
except for the Pole Star itself, the altitude and azimuth of any star you pick are constantly
changing.
because earth rotates