The Earth and the Moon

How long does it take the moon to go around the Earth? 

• 26 days 

• 1 year

• 29 days 

What is the name of this phase when we look from the Northern Hemisphere?

• Waxing Gibbous

• 1st quarter 

• Full Moon

What is the name of this phase? 

• Waning Gibbous 

• 1st quarter 

• New Moon

Every object with mass have gravity. The more the mass of an object, the ______________ the gravity.

• Weaker

• Stronger

• Faster

How many phases does the moon go through?

• 8

• 10

• 9

• 12

What is the name of this phase? 

• 3rd quarter 

• New Moon

• waxing crescent 

The sun is a sphere because all the Sun's ____________ pulls all the gas it is made of towards the center of the earth.

• gravity

• rays

• force

What phase comes after the Full Moon Phase?

• Waning Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Waxing Gibbous

The moon seems to rise in the east, moves across the sky and sets in the in the west because

• The sun is moving

• The earth is rotating

• The moon is moving.

Why do we see the moon in the sky?

• It is because the moon emits its own light

• It is the moon reflects light from the stars

• It is because the moon reflects light from the sun.

• It is because the moon reflects light from the Earth