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Phases,Eclipses,Tide

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True Or False The moon revolves around earth once a year. False
True Or False the same side of the moon always faces Earth. True
True Or False the moon rotates slowly on its axis once every 27.3 days. True
True Or False a "day" and "year" on the moon are the same length? True
What causes the phases of the moon,eclipses and tides? The changing relative positions of the moon,earth and sun.
What are the different shapes of the moons you see from Earth? Phases.
How often dose the moon go through a entire set of phases? Every 29.5 days or each time it makes a complete revolution around Earth.
What dose the phases of the moon depend on? How much of the sunlit side you see from earth.
What do you see during a new moon? None of the sunlit side
What do you see during a First Quarter? Half of the sunlit side.
What do you see during a Full Moon? All of the sunlit side.
What do you see during a Third quarter? Half of the sunlit side.
Is the near side facing earth always the dark side? No only sometimes it is during a New Moon.
What percent of the dark side of the moon do you see during the first and third quarters? Half. 50%
What happens when the moons shadows hits the Earth or the other way around? An eclipse.
What are the 2 types of eclipses? Solar and Lunar.
What causes a solar eclipse? When the moon goes between the sun and the Earth.
Whats the darkest part of the moons shadow called? the umbra.
What is the larger part of the shadow less dark the the umbra called? the penumbra.
True OR False People in the umbra only see a partial solar eclipse. False the see a full one.
True OR False During a partial solar eclipse,part of the sky remains visible True
True OR False during a total solar eclipse the sky grows dark. True
True OR False people in the penumbra see a total solar eclipse. False the see a partial one.
What is the arrangements of earth,moon and sun for a lunar eclipse? The earth is between the moon and sun.
True OR False people in the earths umbra see a total solar eclipse False
True OR False a lunar eclipse always occurs during a full moon. True
True OR False During a lunar eclipse earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon. True.
True OR False a partial lunar eclpise occurs when the moon passes partly into the umbra of earth's shadow. True.
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