General
The object that illuminates the Moon.
What is the Sun?
The path the Moon takes around the Earth.
What is it's orbit?
The Moon phase when illuminated on the right side.
What is waxing?
The Moon phase after New Moon.
What is Waxing Crescent?
This is the phases during which a lunar eclipse can sometimes occur.
What is a Full Moon?
The amount of the Moon that is always illuminated.
What is half?
The direction the Moon orbits Earth.
What is counterclockwise?
The Moon phase when the left side is illuminated.
What is waning?
The Moon phase after Full Moon.
What is Waning Gibbous?
This happens when the Moon blocks sunlight from hitting the Earth, casting a shadow on the Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
The reason the entire Moon can never be illuminated.
What is light travels in a straight line?
What is the side facing the Sun?
The reason we see different moon phases.
What is the Moon moves to different positions around Earth?
The Moon phase where the right half of the Moon is illuminated.
What is First Quarter?
The order the Earth, Moon and Sun are in during a Lunar Eclipse.
What is the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon?
The reason the Moon's appearance changes for us on Earth.
What is we only see the side of the Moon facing us?
OR
What is we see different amounts of the illuminated side of the Moon?
The Moon phase missing from this list:
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, _______________, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent.
What is Waning Gibbous?
This creates a predictable pattern to the Moon's phases.
What is the Moon's orbit around Earth?
The Moon phase before New Moon.
What is Waning Crescent?
This is the orientation the Earth, Moon, and Sun must be in for an eclipse to happen.
What is a straight line, with Earth in the middle?
When objects in a model are bigger or smaller, but the same relative size to each other.
What is "to scale?"
The only event during which the entire Moon is dark.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The length of time it takes the Moon to go through all 8 phases.
29.5 days
The Moon phase with 1/4 of the left side illuminated.
What is waning crescent?
This is the reason we do not have an eclipse every month.
What is the moon's tilted orbit?