8th grade 2nd Semester Review

What is the term for groups of stars in specific patterns that move through the sky during the night but do not change shape or size because the distance between any two stars stays the same?

• Constellations

• Galaxies

• Planets

• Asteroids

What is the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space called?

• Orbit

• Axis

• Crater

• Eclipse

What is the change in the sunlit area of one celestial body, such as Earth, that happens in regular patterns called?

• Phase

• Orbit

• Rotation

• Eclipse

What is it called when the moon is between Earth and the sun, and from Earth, the moon is completely dark because the side that reflects sunlight is facing away from Earth?

• New Moon

• Full Moon

• First Quarter

• Waning Gibbous

What is the term for when a thin sliver of the moon becomes visible and continues to grow, meaning the part of the moon we can see is getting larger?

• Waxing Crescent

• Waning Gibbous

• New Moon

• Full Moon

From Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, what is it called when the right half of the moon appears fully lit?

• First Quarter

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Last Quarter

What is the term for when the sunlit fraction of the moon that is visible from Earth continues to grow?

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• New Moon

• Full Moon

What is it called when Earth is between the moon and sun, and the entire sunlit fraction of the moon is visible from Earth?

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• First Quarter

• Last Quarter

What is the term for when the sunlit fraction of the moon that is visible from Earth decreases, meaning the part of the moon we see is getting smaller?

• Waning Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

• Full Moon

• New Moon

From Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, what is it called when the left half of the moon appears fully lit?