Earth Moon Sun Vocabulary

What is the tide with the least difference between high and low tides?

• Spring Tide

• Neap Tide

• Summer Tide

• Fall Tide

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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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From Earth...

• we can only see the half of the moon that is facing us

• we see the moon all the time

• we can only see the half of the moon that is facing away from us

• we never see the moon

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Why do we see different phases of the moon?

• We see different amounts of the illuminated half of the moon because the moon moves to different positions around the Earth.

• We see different phases of the moon due to the colored rocks we see from Earth.

• We see different amounts of the Moon due to how close it is to the sun.

• We don't see different phases of the moon.

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Is there a pattern to the position of the Moon?

• Yes-because the Moon orbits around Earth.

• Yes-because the Moon gets closer or farther away from the sun.

• No-the moon appears in the sky at different times and is unpredictable.

• No-the moon never moves or changes.

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If you looked in the sky and saw a waning gibbous, when is the first time you will see a waning gibbous again?

• one month

• one week

• two weeks

• it depends; the moon is unpredictable

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Is there ever a time that the moon will be completely dark from Earth's perspective?

• Yes, only during a lunar eclipse.

• Yes, always during a new moon.

• Yes, always during a new moon and sometimes during a full moon when a lunar eclipse is possible.

• No, the moon is always half illuminated by the sun.

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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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The moon is only completely dark...

• never, it is always halfway illuminated by the sun.

• during a new moon phase.

• when the sun, Earth, and moon are in a straight line with Earth in the middle.

• when the sun, moon, and Earth are in a straight line with the moon in the middle.

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Why is there not a lunar eclipse every month during the full moon phase?

• There is a lunar eclipse every month during the full moon phase.

• The moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted, allowing it to not always be in the shadow of the Earth.

• The earth's orbit is tilted, allowing the moon to not always be in the shadow of the Earth.

• We never have lunar eclipses.

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