lunar phase ID
This phase occurs when the moon is between the Earth and the sun
What is a new moon?
Another way to say the moon's repeating pattern is...
What is lunar cycle?
This eclipse can only occur during a new moon phase...
What is solar eclipse?
This person was the first to walk on the moon...
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The moon is said to be made of this...
What is cheese
This phase occurs after a new moon and looks like a banana...
What is waxing crescent?
This is the number of days it takes the moon to make a complete orbit around the Earth...
What is 27 days?
This eclipse can only occur during a full moon...
What is a lunar eclipse?
This force from the moon affects the tides on Earth...
What is (the moon's) gravity?
the craters on the moon's surface reveal this image, often seen during a full moon
What is the man on the moon?
This phase occurs when the moon appears more than half illuminated in the sky
What is gibbous or a gibbous moon?
The lunar cycle is about 27 days. This phase is about one week after a new moon...
What is first quarter?
During a lunar eclipse, the moons appears red because longer wavelengths of red light are reflected onto the moon, that's why some cal a lunar eclipse this name...
What is a blood moon?
T or F: We only see one side of the moon because it does not rotate...
What is false?
the moon rotational speed is equal to its orbital speed.
Don't go out at night during this moon phase...you might turn into a werewolf...
What is a full moon?
this moon phase occurs 3/4 of the through the lunar cycle
What is third or last quarter?
The moon's orbit ( its path around the Earth) isn't a circle, it's a elongated circle also known as this...
What is an ellipse?
Durng this type of eclipse, it is important not to look directly at it because it could damage your eyes...
What is a solar eclipse?
If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, then you would weigh only 17 pounds on the the moon. That's because the moon has less of this force...
What is gravity?
T or F: The moon landing was faked.
What is False.
This phase occurs halfway through the moon 27 day cycle...
What is a full moon?
This word is similar to the word moon because it means a time period close to the length of one lunar cycle...
What is a month?
An total eclipse occurs when the moon or Earth create a dark shadow called this...
What is the umbra?
This is a dance move that Michael Jackson is famous for....
What is the Moonwalk?
This side of the moon actually does receive sunlight despite its name, also the name of a Pink FLoyd album...
What is the dark side of the moon?