Earth and Moon

Although the Moon has no water, vast plains called _____, a Latin word meaning "seas". cover large parts of its surface.

• maria

• mars

• oceans

• magma

Rocks striking the Moon over billions of years have formed many_____.

• faces

• islands

• craters

• moons

The Moon shines with light that comes from the _____ and reflects off the Moon's surface.

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The appearance and shape of the Moon as you see it from Earth is called a _____.

• illusion

• tantrum

• ellipse

• phase

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A darkening or hiding of the Sun, a planet, or a moon by another object in space is an _____.

• eclipse

• ellipse

• trick

• tide

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A solar eclipse happens when the _____ casts a shadow on part of the Earth, and people there see the Moon move across the face of the sun.

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A solar eclipse occurs only during the _____ phase.

• waning crescent

• full moon

• new moon

• waxing gibbous

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A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon moves into and is hidden by the shadow of _____.

• Earth

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Pluto

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During an eclipse, the area where the Sun in completely blocked is the _____, and the area where light is not completely blocked is the _____.

• penumbra

• umbra

• solar

• lunar

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The rise and fall of the ocean's surface because of the gravity of the Moon and Sun is the _____.

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