Terms 2 Learn Moon

What is the apparent change in the lighted portion of the moon as it orbits the earth called?

• Moon phases

• Lunar eclipse

• Solar eclipse

• Tidal effect

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What is it called when the lighted portion of the moon appears to be growing?

• Waxing

• Waning

• Eclipsing

• New Moon

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What is it called when the lighted portion of the moon appears to be shrinking?

• Waning

• Waxing

• Full Moon

• New Moon

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What is the term for when the lighted portion of the moon is smaller than half and C shaped?

• Crescent

• Gibbous

• Full Moon

• New Moon

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What is the term for when the lighted portion of the moon is bigger than half and D shaped?

• Gibbous

• Crescent

• New Moon

• Full Moon

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What are the daily changes in sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon on earth’s water called?

• Tides

• Waves

• Currents

• Ripples

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What is the term for the weakest tides, low high tide and high low tide, during first and last quarter of the moon?

• Neap tide

• Spring tide

• King tide

• Perigean tide

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What is the term for the strongest tides, high high tides and low low tides, during new and full moon?

• Spring tide

• Neap tide

• Ebb tide

• Flood tide

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What is it called when the moon moves into the shadow of the earth?

• Lunar eclipse

• Solar eclipse

• New moon

• Full moon

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What is it called when the earth moves into the shadow of the moon?

• Solar eclipse

• Lunar eclipse

• Equinox

• Solstice

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