Amplify Earth, Moon, and Sun Vocabulary

Lunar eclipses...

• happen all the time in the new moon phase.

• can only happen when the Earth is in between the sun and moon.

• never happen.

• can only happen when the moon is in between the sun and Earth.

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a moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth

• exomoon

• full moon

• crescent moon

• gibbous moon

• quarter moon

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a moon phase that looks like a full circle

• new moon

• crescent moon

• quarter moon

• gibbous moon

• full moon

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a moon phase that looks like more than a half circle from Earth

• full moon

• crescent moon

• quarter moon

• waxing

• gibbous moon

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when the Moon is completely dark due to Earth's shadow

• orbit

• new moon

• lunar eclipse

• exoplanet

• waning

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the nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object (like Earth)

• model

• waning

• waxing

• orbit

• illuminate

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a moon phase that looks like half a circle from Earth

• quarter moon

• full moon

• new moon

• gibbous moon

• crescent moon

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a rocky sphere that travels around a planet

• sun

• moon

• pattern

• orbit

• terminator

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Which of the following is true about the moon?

• It makes its own light.

• It does not make its own light.

• It has light colored rocks.

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What is true about the sun and the moon?

• The sun illuminates the half of the Moon that is facing it, and the other half is dark.

• The sun illuminates the half of the Moon that is not facing it, and the other half is dark.

• The sun illuminates the entire moon and no part of it is dark.

• The Moon makes its own light and the sun doesn't have anything to do with it.

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