Earth, Moon, and Sun System

Approximately how much time does it take for the moon to phase from LETTER A to LETTER F?

• 3.5 days

• 1 week

• 2 weeks

• 10.5 days

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What would the moon look like 15 days after this one?

• Full moon

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Crescent

• New moon

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Name the phase that the selected images represent.

• Waxing Crescent

• Waxing Gibbous

• First Quarter

• Third Quarter

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What moon phase will be observed after the waning crescent?

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What phase occurs on the 15th of the month? What is the name of the phase?

• 3rd Quarter

• 1st Quarter

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

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What phase would come about 2 weeks after this one?

• Waning Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• Full Moon

• New Moon

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It will be a full moon on December 23, 2018. About what date will the next full moon occur?

• January 1, 2019

• January 10, 2019

• January 21, 2019

• February 1, 2019

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What phase occurs on the designated part of the graph?

• Waxing Crescent

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

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For a solar eclipse to occur,

• the sun must be directly between Earth and the moon.

• the moon must be directly between Earth and the sun.

• the moon must be directly behind Earth.

• Earth must be directly between the sun and the moon.

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During a total lunar eclipse the moon is in Earth’s

• corona.

• penumbra.

• umbra.

• orbit.

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