Checkup: Moon Phases and Eclipses

When the visible (lit) portion of the moon is increasing, the moon is:

• waning
• full
• waxing
• new

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Earth is between the moon and sun (but the moon is not in Earth's shadow) it is most likely a:

• new moon
• full moon
• waxing crescent
• waxing gibbous

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Approximately how much time passes between the new moon and full moon?

• one month
• two weeks (14 days)

• 3 days
• 24 hours

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What causes the moon's phases

• Where you are standing on Earth

• We see different amounts of the sunlit half of the moon from Earth.

• The tilt of Earth

• how fast the moon is moving

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

T/F The moon can be seen from Earth because it reflects the sun's light

• TRUE
• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Why do we always see the same side of the moon from Earth?

• because the phases change
• because it rotates and revolves at the same rate
• because half of the moon always receives sunlight
• The moon changes positions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Define Full Moon

• None of moon is visible

• Half moon phase is visible

• We see the entire lit half of the moon

• Less Than half of moon is visible

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Define New Moon

• None of moon is visible from Earth. The sunlit half is facing away.

• All of moon visible from Earth

• Moon is 1/2 visible from Earth

• Moon is more than Half Visible from Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

True or False...The side of the moon facing away from Earth is always dark.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

How much of the moon is ALWAYS lit by the Sun.

• All of it

• Half