Moon Phases
When the entire face of the moon is illuminated and fully visible.
What is a Full Moon?
When the moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and its illuminated side is facing away from us, making it invisible.
What is a New Moon?
The Moon's rotation is the same amount of time it takes to revolve around this planet
What is Earth?
New moon phase means that the Sun, Earth, and Moon are almost in this type of line with the Moon in between the Sun and Earth
What is straight?
Waxing means this
What is increasing or growing larger?
When a sliver of the Moon becomes visible as it starts to move away from the Sun.
What is a Waxing Crescent?
When a half of the Moon is illuminated for the first time, and it looks like a half-circle.
What is a First Quarter
The revolution of the Moon around the Earth makes the Moon look as if it is changing this
What is shape in the sky?
There are this many phases of the moon
What is 8?
Waning means this
What is decreasing or smaller?
When more and more of the moon is becoming illuminated that half of the Moon is visible, but it is not yet full.
What is a Waxing Gibbous?
When the Moon starts to lose its illumination after being full.
What is Waning Gibbous?
The Moon rotates on its _____
What is axis?
The Moon's rotation takes this many days
What is 27.3?
The different angels we see the lighted part of the moon is called this
What is phases of the Moon?
When again, half of the Moon is illuminated, but the opposite half compared to the First Quarter.
What is the Third or Last Quarter
When only a small sliver of the Moon is visible before it goes back to the New Moon phase.
What is a Waning Crescent?
The moon seems to shine because it reflects this
What is sunlight?
A complete cycle of moon phases takes this many days
What is 29.5 days?
Lunar eclipse means this?
What is the Earth's shadow on the moon causing the moon to go dark.
True or False: The hemisphere you are in affects whether the Moon's phases progress from right to left or left to right.
What is true?
Name each phase of the Moon.
What is the...
The same side of the Moon always _____ Earth
What is faces?
Third/Last Quarter Moon is where the ____ side of the Moon is lighted and the _____ side of the Moon is dark
What is left and right?
Solar eclipse means this?
What is the Moon's shadow on the Earth that causes the sun to go dark?