Unit 6: Earth, Moon, Sun

What is the terminator?

• The action figure
• A moon phase
• The border between light and dark on the moon
• The moon is only ever half lit

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What star is at the center of our solar system?

• Earth
• Moon
• Sun
• Milky Way

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What is a rocky sphere that rotates around Earth?

• Satellite
• Moon
• Sun
• Meteor

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Yosgart looked up one night and saw a crescent moon. If Yosgart looks for the Moon again in one month, what will he see?

• Yosgart will see a crescent moon again, like Diagram A.
• Yosgart will see a quarter moon, like Diagram B.
• Yosgart could see either a crescent or a quarter moon; it depends on the time of year.
• There’s no way to tell because the Moon’s pattern is always changing.

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How were maria on the moon formed?

• Space

• Volcanoes

• Astronauts

• Maria is a person

How many phases of the moon are there?

• 1
• 4
• 8
• 10

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True or False: Earth is the planet we live on.

• True
• False

True or False: An astronaut can travel to space.

• True
• False

The order of objects in a lunar eclipse is...

• Sun-Moon-Earth
• Moon-Sun-Earth
• Sun-Earth-Moon
• Earth-Moon-Sun

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Solar eclipses and lunar eclipses do not occur each month because

• the Earth's orbit is tilted
• the Moon's orbit is tilted
• Earth's axis is tilted
• the sun is tilted

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