Lesson 4 Vocabulary

Eclipse in which the entire disk of the full moon is covered by Earth’s umbra

• Total Lunar eclipse

• Total Solar eclipse

• Partial Solar eclipse

• Partial Lunar eclipse

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1. Eclipse visible on Earth from inside the Moon’s umbra; occurs  

when the Sun’s entire disk—except for the corona—is blocked by the new moon

• Total Lunar eclipse

• Total Solar eclipse

• Partial Solar eclipse

• Partial Lunar eclipse

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1. A solar eclipse in which the new moon temporarily blocks  

part of the Sun’s disk

• Total Lunar eclipse

• Total Solar eclipse

• Partial Solar eclipse

• Partial Lunar eclipse

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1. The blocking of sunlight to the Moon*

• Solar eclipse

• Lunar eclipse

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1. The phase of the Moon in which the entire side of the Moon that faces Earth is fully illuminated

• Full Moon

• Crescent

• Waning Crescent

• Last Quarter

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1. The phase of the Moon in which only the right half of the Moon’s side that faces Earth is illuminated

• Full Moon

• Crescent

• Waning Crescent

• First Quarter

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1. The phase of the Moon in which only the left half of the Moon’s side that faces Earth is illuminated

• First Quarter

• Crescent

• Waning Crescent

• Last Quarter

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1. A phase of the Moon in which the side of the Moon that faces Earth is not illuminated at all

• First Quarter

• New Moon

• Full Moon

• Last Quarter

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1. Phase of the Moon in which a narrow strip of the Moon’s lighted  

hemisphere is visible from Earth; shaped like a crescent; light is on the left;

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

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1. Phase of the Moon in  which the lighted portion of the Moon’s side that faces Earth is getting smaller; occurs after a full moon

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

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