Phases and Eclipses

What are the different shapes of the moon called?

• crescents

• gibbous

• patterns

• phases

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When the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth and blocks the sun's light, it is called a(n)

• umbra

• lunar

• solar

• penumbra

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When Earth is directly between the moon and sun, it is called a(n)_________ eclipse.

• penumbra

• umbra

• solar

• lunar

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What term describes the rise and fall of the ocean water?

• eclipses

• phases

• moon

• tides

During which moon phases does a spring tide occur?

• Waxing and waning crescent moons

• New Moon and Full Moon

• First and Third Quarter Moons

• Waxing and Waning Gibbous Moons

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You are less likely to see a solar eclipse than a lunar eclipse because

• the moon's shadow covers all of Earth during a lunar eclipse

• new moon phases occurs less often than full moon phase

• only people on the daytime side of Earth can see a solar eclipse

• you must be in the moon's shadow to see a solar eclipse

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A TOTAL solar eclipse is visible from

• all over Earth

• only within the moon's umbra

• only within the moon's penumbra

• only the dark side of the Earth

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Because the moon rotates once for each revolution around Earth

• you see some phases more than once

• a different side of the moon faces Earth each day

• you never see the far side of the moon from Earth

• the far side of the moon is visible only during the full moon phase

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How long is a lunar month?

• 31 days

• 30 days

• 28.5 days

• 29.5 days

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The phase of the moon you see depends on

• where you are on Earth's surface

• how much of the sunlit side of the moon faces Earth

• how much of the moon's surface is lit by the sun

• whether or not an eclipse is occuring

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