Moon Phase

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

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

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

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

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

• waxing
• waning
• new
• eclipse

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What Moon phase is this?

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

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What Moon phase is this?

• Last Quarter
• New Moon
• Third Quarter
• First Quarter

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What Moon phase is this?

• Old Moon
• Far Side of the Moon
• New Moon
• Waxing Gibbous

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The complete cycle of the moon lasts about a _.

• day
• year
• week
• month

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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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Changes in the moon's appearance are

• phases
• eclipses
• stages
• cycle

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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

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