Amplify Earth, Moon, Sun Vocab Quiz

a moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth

• Crescent Moon

• Waning Moon

• Gibbous Moon

• Waxing Moon

a moon outside our solar system

• model moon

• quarter moon

• exoplanet

• exomoon

a planet outside our solar system

• terminator

• full moon

• exoplanet

• exomoon

a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth (you can see the whole moon)

• quarter moon

• full moon

• new moon

• crescent moon

a moon phase that looks like more than a half circle from Earth

• gibbous moon

• new moon

• full moon

• crescent moon

to shine light on an object and make it visible

• orbit

• pattern

• illuminate

• terminator

when the Moon is completely dark (when the earth is between the sun and the moon)

• crescent moon

• lunar eclipse

• solar eclipse

• full moon

the amount of time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around a star or stars

• hours

• month

• day

• year

the border between light and dark on the Moon

• terminator

• illuminate

• scale

• pattern

the star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system

• eclipse

• lunar

• sun

• moon