Earth Sun Moon Relationships

Why does the Earth have seasons?

• The temperature of the sun changes.
• Earth rotates on its axis.
• Earth's axis is tilted as it moves around the sun.
• The distance between Earth and the sun changes.

Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.

• revolution

• orbit

• rotation

• tilt

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

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

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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

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

Name this phase of the moon.

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

Name this moon phase.

• new moon
• 1st quarter moon
• last quarter moon
• waning gibbous

What is this moon phase?

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

What is this moon phase?

• new moon
• 1st quarter
• full moon
• 3rd quarter

Name this moon phase.

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