Phases of Moon

 True or False: The moon does not produce its own light.

• True
• False

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When the moon waxes, it ________.

• goes from a new moon to a full moon
  
• seems to get bigger in size
• goes from a full moon back to a new moon
• A and B only

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When the moon wanes, it ________.

• goes from a new moon to a full moon
• goes from a full moon back to a new moon
  
• seems to get smaller in size
  
• B and C only

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What is the correct order of the first five phases of the moon?

• full, crescent, quarter, gibbous, new
  
• new, crescent, gibbous, quarter, full
• new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full
• full, quarter, gibbous, crescent, new
  

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Which phase of the moon is shown in the picture?

• New
• Cresent
• Quarter
• Gibbous

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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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The Moon orbits Earth in a ________________ direction

• clockwise
• counterclockwise
• upwards
• downwards

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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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Define Gibbous

• Less than half of moon visible
• More than half of moon visible
• All of moon visible
• None of moon visible

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Define Full Moon

• None of moon is visible
• Half moon phase is visible
• Complete moon face is visible
• Less Than half of moon is visible

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