Moon: Day and Night

What is the moon phase in which the Moon appears to have the Sun’s light shining on more than half of the right side of the Moon?

• new moon

• waning gibbous

• waxing crescent

• waxing gibbous

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What is the moon phase in which less than one-half of the Moon appears to be lit on the left side?

• full moon

• last\third quarter

• first quarter

• waning crescent

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What causes day and night? 

• The tilt of the Earth. 

• The rotation of the Earth 

• The sun 

• The revolution of the earth around the sun.  

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Students make a model using a globe and a flashlight. Which answer choice best explains the change from daytime to nighttime on Earth?

• The sun stops sending light to Earth at night.

• Earth moves father away from the sun at night.

• The tilt of Earth causes less light to reach Earth at night.

• Earth rotates and causes different parts of Earth to experience night.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the moon phase in which the Moon is halfway to new moon?

• first quarter

• full moon

• last\third quarter

• waxing crescent

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What is the moon phase in which the lighted side of the Moon cannot be seen?

• new moon

• third\last quarter

• first quarter

• full moon

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What is the moon phase in which less than one-half of the Moon appears to be lit on the right side?

• waxing gibbous

• waning crescent

• waning gibbous

• waxing crescent

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the main source of the moon’s light?

• Earth

• Sun

• Moon

• the stars in the night sky

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Moon has completed one-quarter of its orbit around the Earth, the Moon appears to be a half circle. This phase is called the —

• gibbious moon

• full moon

• quarter moon

• crescent moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What makes daylight turn to darkness?

• the rotation of Earth

• the tilt of Earth on its axis

• Earth revolving around the Sun

• the Sun traveling away from Earth

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