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What moon phases appear to be growing larger?
a) waxing
b) waning
c) New
d) Full

What moon phase comes after the full moon?
a) waxing gibbous
b) waning gibbous
c) waxing crescent
d) waning crescent

What moon phase comes after the new moon?
a) waxing crescent
b) waning crescent
c) waxing gibbous
d) waning gibbous

What moon phases have the moon lit on the left side?
a) waxing
b) waning
c) full
d) new

What moon phase comes after the waxing crescent
a) waxing gibbous
b) waning crescent
c) new
d) 1st quarter

How much of the moon is always lit from the sun?
a) 50%
b) 100%
c) 25%
d) it varries

What causes Earth to have day and night?
a) rotation
b) revolution
c) gravity
d) equinox

What is the longest day of the year?
a) winter solstice
b) summer solstice
c) spring equinox
d) fall equinox

When the moon passes between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow onto Earth its a
a) solar eclipse
b) lunar eclipse
c) equinox
d) full moon

Seasons are caused by
a) Earth's revolution
b) Earth's roatation
c) Earth's distance from the Sun
d) Earth's axis

Winter occurs when the axis is
a) tilted toward the sun
b) slanted at more than a 23.5 degree angle
c) tilted away from the sun
d) tilted parallel to the sun

A lunar eclipse occurs during a
a) full moon
b) new moon
c) 1st quarter moon
d) 3rd quarter moon

Equinox means
a) elongated
b) longest
c) shortest
d) equal

When it is summer in the northern hemisphere it is______ in the southern hemisphere.
a) summer
b) winter
c) spring
d) fall

What causes tides?
a) the moon
b) the sun
c) the rotation of Earth
d) whales

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