Moon Phases and Orbits Quiz

What is the path that a planet, moon, or satellite takes as it moves around another object in space called?

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Phase

• Crescent

What is a full circle or journey around an object, like Earth’s revolution around the Sun, called?

• Orbit

• Phase

• Revolution

• Reflection

What is the term for a stage in the cycle of the moon or another repeating process?

• Crescent

• Phase

• Wax

• Wane

What is the shape of the moon that looks like a thin, curved slice, like the letter "C"?

• Quarter

• Gibbous

• Crescent

• Full

What is the phase of the moon when half of the moon’s surface is visible from Earth?

• Gibbous

• Crescent

• Quarter

• Full

What is the phase of the moon when more than half of it is visible from Earth, but it is not yet full?

• Gibbous

• Crescent

• Quarter

• New

What is it called when the moon’s lighted part gets bigger after the new moon?

• Wane

• Wax

• Crescent

• Gibbous

What is it called when the moon’s lighted part gets smaller after the full moon?

• Wax

• Wane

• Crescent

• Gibbous

What is the series of moon phases that repeats about every 29.5 days called?

• Reflection

• Lunar Cycle

• Revolution

• Orbit

What is it called when light bounces off a surface, like how we see the moon’s light?

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Reflection

• Phase