Lunar Cycle Stations

What is the difference between waxing and waning?

• The light is getting bigger when it’s waning and smaller when it’s waxing.

• The light is getting bigger when it’s waxing and smaller when it’s waning.

• Waxing means that there is no light and waning means that there is light.

• Waxing comes after a full moon and waning comes after a new moon.

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What phase comes after a waxing crescent?

• New Moon

• 3rd Quarter

• 1st Quarter

• Waning Gibbous

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What phase is represented in the model?

• Full Moon

• Waxing GIbbous

• 3rd Quarter

• New Moon

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What phase would come NEXT in the model?

• Full Moon

• Waning Gibbous

• 3rd Quarter

• Waxing Gibbous

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When the moon is between the Earth and the Sun what moon phase will this be?

• New Moon

• 1st Quarter

• Full Moon

• 3rd Quarter

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Why do we have moon phases?

• Because the moon orbits the earth.

• Because the earth orbits the sun.

• Because the moon orbits the sun.

• Because the earth orbits the moon.

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Why doesn’t the Earth block out the light between the Sun and the Moon during a normal month?

• It does.

• Because the moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees.

• Because Earth's axis is tilted.

• Because the sun's axis tilted.

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How long is a moon day?

• 24 hours

• 365.25 Earth days

• 29.5 Earth days

• none of the above

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What is this phase?

• Waxing Crescent
• Waxing Gibbous
• Waning Crescent
• First Quarter

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Which phases are waxing?

• 1 and 2
• 2 and 3
• 3 and 4
• 4 and 5

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