Causes of Lunar Phases

How does the Moon move relative to the Earth and Sun?

• Moon revolves around Sun
• Moon revolves around Earth
• Earth revolves around Moon
• Moon rotates around Sun

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What does "waxing" mean?

• Become larger, stronger, brighter
• Become smaller, weaker, dimmer
• Rotate
• Revolve

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From Earth, why do we always see the same side of the Moon?

• Moon doesn't rotate
• Earth's rotation is faster than Moon's
• Moon's rotation is same speed as its revolution
• Moon's rotation is faster than Earth's

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Roughly once a month, during the Full Moon, why do we not always see a lunar eclipse?

• Earth's tilted axis
• Earth's tilted orbit
• Moon's tilted orbit
• Moon's tilted axis

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How many days does one cycle of lunar phases take?

• 29.5
• 365
• 28-31
• 7

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When the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, what is the phase?

• Full
• New
• Quarter
• Crescent

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When the Moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun, what is the phase?

• Full
• New
• Quarter
• Gibbous

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When the Moon is at a right angle to the Earth relative to the Sun, what phase is it?

• Full
• New
• Quarter
• Harvest

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After the New Moon, is the Moon waxing or waning?

• Waxing
• Waning
• Neither
• Both

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What do we call this phase of the moon?

• crescent moon
• quarter moon
• full moon
• gibbous moon

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