Earth, Moon, Sun Amplify Critical Junction Assessment

A moon phase that looks like a full circle

• New moon

• Crescent moon

• Quarter moon

• Gibbous moon

• Full moon

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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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the star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system

• moon

• exoplanet

• Sun

• Earth

• illuminate

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a rocky sphere that travels around a planet

• sun

• moon

• orbit

• terminator

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A moon phase that looks like almost fully illuminated from Earth

• Full moon

• Quarter moon

• Crescent moon

• Waxing

• Gibbous moon

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The sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun

• Exoplanet

• Exomoon

• Moon phase

• Illuminate

• Solar system

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Lunar eclipses...

• happen all the time in the new moon phase.

• never happen

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

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

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the shape of the illuminated part of the Moon as it appears from Earth

• moon phase

• orbit

• sun

• model

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Leticia is a space scientist who made this diagram of the Moon and Earth as seen from above (top view), with sunlight coming from the left, as shown by the arrows. Why does Leticia’s diagram show that it’s brighter on the left half of the Moon?

• Because half of the Moon that is facing the sun is lit by the sun, and the other half is dark.

• Because the Moon has some lighter-colored rock and some darker-colored rock, and Leticia’s diagram is showing that the half of the Moon with the lighter-colored rock has rotated to the left.

• Because as the Moon gets closer to the sun more of it is lit by the sun, so Leticia’s diagram is showing sunlight on half of the Moon.

• Because there is a shadow from Earth falling on half of the Moon, and Leticia’s diagram is showing that shadow on the right half of the Moon.

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