MOON PHASES

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What is the moon?

• a mystery

• satellite

• a star

• a dwarf planet

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How does the moon shine at night?

• nuclear fission

• nuclear fusion

• refraction of the sun

• reflection of the sun

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How long after a new moon will it take to see another new moon?

• 12 days
• 29.5 days
• 27.3 days
• 365 days

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_______ is the apparent changing shapes of the Moon 

• New Moon
• Crescent Moon
• Full Moon
• Moon Phases

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CHOOSE THE CORRECT MOON PHASE

• NEW MOON
• FULL MOON
• WAXING GIBBOUS
• NONE OF THE ABOVE

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A ______ is when the side of the Moon facing Earth appears to be not lit. 

• New Moon
• Crescent Moon
• Full Moon
• Moon Phases

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What causes the moon's phases

• Where you are standing on Earth

• the amount of sunlight reflected onto the moon from the sun

• The tilt of Earth

• how fast the moon is moving

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What phase is this?

• Waxing gibbous

• Waning crescent

• Waxing crescent

• New moon

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Define Waxing

• Moon is increasing and light part appears to be growing
• Completely illuminated
• dark side is facing earth
• Moon is decreasing and light part appears to be shrinking

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CHOOSE THE CORRECT MOON PHASE

• FIRST QUARTER
• LAST QUARTER
• CRESCENT MOON
• NEW MOON

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Name the moon phase

• waning crescent
• waxing crescent
• waning gibbous
• waxing gibbous

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As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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What moon phase is this picture?

• This is the waning crescent phase.
• This is the waxing gibbous phase.
• This is the waning gibbous phase.
• This is the new moon phase.

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What moon phase is this picture?

• This is the full moon phase.  
• This is the waxing crescent moon phase.
• This is the waning gibbous moon phase.
• This is the waning crescent moon phase.

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What phase of the moon is this image?

• This is the last quarter moon phase.
• This is the full moon phase.
• This is the first quarter moon phase.
• This is the waxing gibbous moon phase.

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What phase is this?

• Waning gibbous

• Waxing gibbous

• Waning crescent

• Full moon