Moon phases

What moon phase comes before a Full Moon?

• Waxing Crescent
• Waning Crescent
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Gibbous

Which Moon phase comes before a Waxing Gibbous?

• Waning Crescent
• First Quarter
• Waxing Crescent
• Full Moon

Which moon phase comes after a Last Quarter?

• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Gibbous
• Waxing Crescent
• Waning Crescent

Which phase falls between a New moon and First Quarter? 

• Waxing Crescent
• Waning Crescent
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Gibbous

When the visible (lit) portion of the moon is increasing, the moon is:

• waning
• full
• waxing
• new

When the Earth is between the moon and sun, it is most likely a:

• new moon
• full moon
• waxing crescent
• waxing gibbous

What causes the moon's phases

• Where you are standing on Earth
• the amt of sunlight reflected onto the moon from the sun
• The tilt of Earth
• how fast the moon is moving

Why do we always see the same side of the moon from Earth?

• because the phases change
• because it rotates and revolves at the same rate
• because half of the moon always receives sunlight
• The moon changes positions�

Define Waxing

• Lighted part of the moon appears to be growing

• Completely illuminated

• dark side is facing earth

• Lighted part of the moon appears to be�shrinking

Which is the BEST definition of Gibbous?

• Less than half of moon visible

• More than half of moon visible

• All of moon visible

• None of moon visible