Earth/Moon/Sun Review

The visible part of the Moon becomes larger

• Waxing

• waning

• New moon

• Crescent moon

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The visible part of the Moon becomes smaller

• full moon

• waxing

• waning

• crescent moon

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the beginning of summer or winter: days on which the hours of daylight are longest or shortest

• eclipse

• solstice

• ellipse

• gravity

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the spin of an object around its axis

• rotation

• revolution

• orbit

• spinning

the orbit of one object around another object

• circling

• spinning

• rotation

• revolution

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beginning of spring and fall; days on which hours of daylight equal hours of darkness

• lunar eclipse

• solstice

• eclipse

• equinox

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What causes our days and nights here on Earth?

• The rotation of the moon

• The rotation of the Earth on its axis

• The revolution of the Moon

• The revolution of the Earth

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What is Earth's axis?

• An imaginary line through the center of the Earth

• A metal pole through the center of the Earth

• The way the Earth revolves

• The way the moon revolves

If there is a new moon tonight, for the next two weeks will the moon appear larger. This is called

• waxing

• waning

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What causes years on Earth?

• One Earth rotation
• One revolution around the sun

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