Moon Phases
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| Waxing | To grow, increase in size, enlarge. Light on the right side.
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| Waning | To get smaller, decrease in size, shrink. Light on the left side.
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| New Moon | When the moon is completely dark because the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun. 1st phase
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| Full Moon | When the moon is completely bright because the Earth is between the Sun and Moon.
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| Crescent | A thin curved shape that’s thicker in the middle and tapers to thin points at each end. Less that 50% full
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| Gibbous | When the moon is more than half way full, but less than 100% full.
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| Quarter Moon | Occurs when half (1/2) of the moon is lit up.
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| Space View | What the moon looks like if we were floating above Earth and looking down.
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| Earth View | What the moon looks like to us on Earth. 8 different phases.
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| Illuminate | To brighten with light; to make luminous.
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| Cycle | a course or series of events that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point.
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| Counterclockwise | in a direction opposite to that in which the hands of a clock rotate.
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| Rotation | The spin of an object on its axis. Causes day and night.
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| Revolution | The orbit or movement of one object around another. Causes Seasons.
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| Axis | An imaginary line through the middle of an object.
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| Hemisphere | One half of a sphere, such as one half of the Earth.
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| Moon | Earth's only natural satellite
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| Craters | depressions that formed when objects crashed into the moon
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