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What type of eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and the earth, causing the moon's shadow to block the sun's light from Earth?
a) Neap
b) Luna
c) Lunar
d) Solar

What means to grow?
a) wax
b) wane
c) crescent
d) gibbous

What means to shrink?
a) wax
b) wane
c) crescent
d) gibbous

What is the phase in which we see less than half of the moon's sunlit side?
a) wax
b) wane
c) crescent
d) gibbous

What is the phase in which we see more than half but not all of the moon's sunlit side?
a) was
b) wane
c) crescent
d) gibbous

What is the cause of our seasons?
a) the Earth's revolution around the sun
b) the Earth's rotation around the sun
c) the tilt of the Earth's axis
d) the sunshine

How many phases of the moon are there?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 10

The summer solstice means
a) summer for both hemispheres
b) winter for both hemispheres
c) summer for the Northern Hemisphere and winter for the Southern Hemisphere
d) winter for the Northern Hemisphere and summer for the Southern Hemisphere

What is the moon's surface like?
a) highlands, craters, mares
b) it is wet, cold, and icy
c) it has no liquid water, no wind, no atmosphere, and extreme temperatures
d) it has rocks, dirt, wind, and water

If it were not for these two factors, the earth would be pulled into the sun or be hurled throughout space in a straight line
a) weight and mass
b) gravity and inertia
c) eclipses and tides
d) seasons and moon phases

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