Phases Vocab
Light from the right
What is waxing?
What is true?
The order of the earth, moon, and sun during a lunar eclipse
What is Sun, Earth, Moon?
Light from the left
What is waning?
The time it take for the moon phases to repeat
What is 29.5 days?
The order of the earth, moon, and sun during a solar eclipse
What is Sun, Moon, Earth?
Less than 50% light
What is crescent?
The time it takes for the moon to go around the earth
What is 27 days?
The thing covered during a lunar eclipse
What is The Moon?
More than 50% light
What is gibbous?
The amount of the moon we see during a full moon
What is the whole one side?
The thing covered during a solar eclipse
Exactly half light on the right
What is first quarter?
The amount of the moon we see during a new moon
What is none of it?
The time between two of the same kind of eclipses
What is 6 months?