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WorksheetsMoon Phases 8.E.4B.4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
Which of the following best describes a full moon?
a)
A complete sunlit portion of the Moon is visible from Earth
b)
Less than half of the sunlit portion of the Moon is visible from Earth
c)
A little more than half of the sunlit portion of the Moon is visible from Earth
d)
None of the sunlit portion of the Moon is visible from Earth.
2.
Which of the following best describes a waxing moon phases?
a)
When the sunlit portion of the Moon is increasing each night
b)
When the sunlit potion of the Moon is decreasing at night
c)
When the sunlit potion of the Moon is less than half
d)
When the sunlit potion of the Moon is more than half.
3.
What will the moon phase be after location number 2?
a)
First quarter
b)
Waxing crescent
c)
Last quarter
d)
Waning crescent
4.
What moon phase is this person modeling?
a)
Full Moon
b)
First quarter
c)
Last quarter
d)
New moon
5.
What moon phase occurs after a waning gibbous phase and before a waning crescent phase?
a)
Third quarter
b)
First quarter
c)
Full moon
d)
New moon
6.
Because the Moon rotates on it's axis and revolves around Earth at nearly the same time which of the following is true?
a)
Only one side of the Moon is visible to Earth.
b)
A year on the moon is longer than a day.
c)
Half of the Moon is always illuminated from Earth
d)
The Earth observes all sides of the moon in one month.
7.
Which moon phase would occur following the 3rd quarter moon?
a)
Waning crescent
b)
Waxing crescent
c)
Waning gibbous
d)
Waxing gibbous
8.
What would an observer on Earth observe between locations 1 and 3?
a)
Waxing crescent
b)
Waning crescent
c)
New Moon
d)
1st quarter moon
9.
How much of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun at any point in time in space?
a)
All of it
b)
None of it
c)
1/2 of it
d)
It changes
10.
Which of the following best explains why the Moon have phases?
a)
The shadow from the earth blocks parts of the moon as the moon revolves around the Earth
b)
As the moon revolves around the Earth the amount of reflected light from the sun changes as viewed from Earth
c)
The moon generates it own light and changes as it revolves around the Earth in one month
d)
Clouds on the Earth blocks parts of the moon causing changes in the appearance of the moon
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