In Spanish, I'm called "luna," you knew?

And the word ______ means “related to the moon.”

I'm the only body in space that humans visited

Choose the word that goes best with the image.

In phase two, I'll have a thin banana shape,

A ______, most of my face is hidden in the shade.

A few days later as I continue my trip

A ______ eclipse makes the moon appear dark.

The sun hits me more 'til half my face is lit.

This is phase three, also known as the ______,

My shape is like a half circle, a wedge of orange.

the shape of the moon in its first or last quarter, resembling a curved shape that is pointed at each end.

When there is a _______, the sky appears very bright, and the moon is a complete circle.

Choose the word that goes best with the image.

My shape seems to change night-to-night,

That's just how much sun reflection you can see, all right?

And in about a month, I circle the Earth,

I go through ______, let me tell you about the first.

Choose the word that goes best with the image

Phase four is _______, about as big as it gets,

I look bigger and brighter as more sunlight reflects.

Which word is a synonym to decrease, diminish, and dwindle?

Which _______ will the moon be in tomorrow?

When the moon has made a ________ revolution around the Earth, we can only see half of it.

Choose the word that goes best with the image

Which word is an antonym for wane?

True or False: The moon does not produce its own light.

What is a way of describing how the moon looks during the quarter phase?

When the moon waxes, it ________.

When the moon wanes, it ________.

What happens right after the full moon phase?

What is the correct order of the first five phases of the moon?

What is true of a new moon?

Why does the moon appear bigger than the planets and stars?

What people sometimes call "moonlight" is actually sunlight reflecting off the moon's surface. The moon itself doesn't give off any light at all. But the moon can sometimes look blue, orange or even red depending on the particles (like dust or pollution) in the atmosphere and the moon's location in the sky.

It takes approximately one month for the moon to travel around the Earth. Because of the moon's movement around the Earth and the reflected light from the sun, we see different portions of the moon's lit half at different times.

A month of lunar phases

While out camping one spring night, you think the moon looks orange. What is one possible explanation?

Generally, the lunar phases are named after the shape of the sun's reflection on the moon that we can see. The quarter moon is an exception. It's sometimes called a half moon, because that's what it looks like. The phases are also named according to whether the moon is getting bigger or smaller each day. When the shape of the moon seems to be growing larger, we say that it's waxing. When the shape of the moon seems to be getting smaller, we say that it's waning.

Although there are five different ways to describe the shape of the moon (full, gibbous, quarter, crescent and new) there are officially eight phases of the moon. The descriptors “waning” or “waxing” are added to three of the moon phases to specify if the moon is getting bigger or smaller. There's waxing gibbous and waning gibbous, waxing quarter and waning quarter, and waxing crescent and waning crescent.

If a moon that looks half full is on its way to increasing into a full moon, it is called a

The crescent moon is the second phase of the moon. At this phase, less than half of the moon's face is visible. To figure out if the moon is waxing or waning, you can hold a finger up to the crescent-moon shape. If your finger against the crescent moon makes a lowercase “b” shape, then it's getting bigger (waxing). If your finger makes a lowercase “d” shape, then the moon is getting smaller (waning).

During a crescent moon,

During a full moon, the moon appears as a complete circle in the night sky. After the full moon phase, the moon will appear to decrease in size moving through the phases in reverse order.

The moon, like the Earth and the sun (and everything else), has gravity. Its gravity pulls slightly on the Earth. The tides of the ocean happen because of the gravity from the moon (and the sun). The moon's gravity pulls the oceans up a little bit, and that creates high tides. Different phases of the moon create different tides.

Which of the following best describes the effect the moon has on the tides?