Lunar Cycle

What causes the Earth to have day and night?

• Revolution
• Rotation
• Moon Phases
• The ocean

The Earth rotates every...

• 12 hours
• 365 days
• 24 hours
• 366 days

What causes the Earth's seasons?

• The tilt of the Earth
• The rotation of the Earth
• The Ocean
• The Wind

Approximately how many days does it take the moon to go from one major phase to the next?

• 7

• 14

• 21

• 28

What is the next phase?

• New Moon
• Last Quarter
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Crescent

What is the name of this phase?

• First quarter
• Waxing crescent
• Waxing Gibbous
• Full Moon

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

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

About how long does it take the moon to make one complete cycle around the earth?

• 65 days
• 8 days
• 365 days
• 28 days

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

• waxing
• waning
• new
• eclipse

What Moon phase is this?

• Full Moon
• Waxing Gibbous
• New Moon
• Half Moon