Spaceship Earth: Mystery 5

1. The Moon ______ the Earth.

• goes through

• orbits

• covers

• follows

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2. Trues or False: You can never see the moon during the day.

• True

• False

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3. The moon cycles through its phases about once a ________.

• day

• hour

• month

• year

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4. Which phase is pictured?

• Full Moon

• Half Moon

• New Moon

• Crescent Moon

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5. Which phase is pictured?

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Half Moon

• Crescent Moon

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6. True or False: The moon is always a sphere, it never actually changes shape.

• True

• False

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Jin notices that the Moon doesn’t always look the same every night. Jin wants to figure out if there is a pattern in how the appearance of the Moon changes. He has a telescope and decides to take a photo of the Moon each night for two weeks. The table shows some of the photos that Jin took of the Moon. Even though some of Jin’s photos are missing, what pattern do you notice? Choose all correct answers.

• The bright part of the Moon that he can see gets larger between night 1 and night 14.

• 1. The bright part of the Moon that he can see gets smaller between night 1 and night 14. 

• 1. The dark part of the Moon that he can see gets larger between night 1 and night 14. 

• The dark part of the Moon that he can see gets smaller between night 1 and night 14.

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Jin knows that the Moon orbits the Earth. He noticed a pattern with the changing appearance of the Moon over the first 14 days of the month. Look back at the table to see the pattern. If Jin continues taking photos of the Moon every night for another two weeks, what pattern will he notice? Choose ALL correct answers.

• 1. The bright part of the Moon that he can see will get larger between night 15 and night 27. 

• The bright part of the Moon that he can see will get smaller between night 15 and night 27.

• The dark part of the Moon that he can see will get larger between night 15 and night 27.

• 1. The dark part of the Moon that he can see will get smaller between night 15 and night 27. 

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