HOMS Astronomy Review

The spinning of the Earth on its axis is

• rotation
• revolution
• precession
• nutation

The Earth's motion around the Sun is called its

• rotation
• revolution
• precession
• nutation

What Shape is Earth's orbit?

• Circular
• Elliptical
• Rectangular
• Spherical

What causes day and night?

• the earth's rotation
• the moons revolution around the sun
• the tilt of the earth
• the tilt of the moon's orbit

The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.

• revolutions
• phases
• rotations
• eclipses

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as _.

• waxing
• waning
• new
• eclipse

Which moon phase is when you can't see the moon at all?

• Waning crescent
• Full moon
• Waxing gibbous
• New moon

The cycle of the moon lasts about a _.

• day
• year
• week
• month

During the phases of the Moon, the Moon appears to change shape.  This change in appearance is due to the Moon...

• physically changing size and shape.
• moving closer and then farther away from Earth.
• reflecting a different amount of light due to alignment with Earth and the Sun.
• having craters on its surface.