Unit 2: Astronomy Test Corrections

What is the name of the moon phase in the diagram?

• 1st Quarter

• 3rd Quarter

• New Moon

• Full Moon

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What is the name of the moon phase in the diagram?

• New Moon

• Full Moon

• 1st Quarter

• 3rd Quarter

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What type of tide would occur when the sun, Earth, and moon are arranged like this?

• Neap Tide

• Spring Tide

• New Moon Tide

• Full Moon Tide

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What is the reason there is day and night on Earth?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's revolution

• Earth's distance from sun

• Earth's tilted axis

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What is it called when the Earth spins on its axis?

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Double Axis

What season would be experienced in the Northern Hemisphere?

• Summer

• Winter

• Spring

• Fall

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Is this moon in the waning or waxing part of the lunar cycle?

• Waxing

• Waning

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What is it is called when the phases of the moon are getting smaller/darker?

• Waning

• Waxing

• Gibbous

• Crescent

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What season would be experienced in the Southern Hemisphere?

• Summer

• Winter

• Spring

• Fall

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What type of tide occurs when the moon is either in the first quarter or third quarter phase?

• Spring Tide

• Neap Tide

• Full Moon Tide

• New Moon Tide

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