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S6E2. a, b, c Study Guide
1. Describe how the new moon phase appears and its position.
Answer: The new moon is located between the sun and the
earth. The entire side facing earth is dark.
2. What motion is responsible for the phases of the moon?
Answer: the Moon revolving around the earth
3. Looking at the picture below, name the moon phase at position 4 and
draw what it would look like from Earth.
Answer: Position 4 – waxing gibbous
4. Looking at the picture above, name the moon phase at position 2 and
draw what it would look like from Earth.
Answer: Position 2 - waxing crescent
5. Why do we only see the same side of the moon?
Answer: because the moon rotates and revolves at about the
same speed
6. About how long does it take for the moon to complete all 8 phases?
Answer: about 28 days (a month)
7. Describe how the full moon phase appears and its position.
Answer: The earth is located in between the sun and the moon
and the entire visible side of the moon is lit up.
8. Which moon phase is pictured to the right?
Answer: Waxing gibbous
9. Define waxing, waning, gibbous, and crescent.
Answer: waxing – the lit side of the moon is growing larger
waning – the lit side of the moon is growing smaller
gibbous – more than half the moon is lit
crescent – less than half the moon is lit
10. Draw and label waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, waning
gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent.
Answer:
Waxing
crescent
Waxing
gibbous
First
quarter
Waning
gibbous
Third
quarter
Waning
crescent
11. Draw a picture that shows the appearance of the moon when a solar
eclipse occurs.
Answer:
new moon
12. When the earth is between the sun and the moon, what type of eclipse
can occur?
Answer: lunar eclipse
13. What happens when the earth casts a shadow on the moon?
Answer: a lunar eclipse occurs
14. What type of event is pictured in the box to the right?
Answer: a solar eclipse
15. What two factors are mainly responsible for our changing seasons?
Answer: the tilt of the earth and earth’s revolution around
the sun
16. What is mainly responsible for the unequal heating of earth’s surface?
Answer: the angle at which the sun’s rays strike the earth
17. Using the diagram to the right, what season would the
Northern Hemisphere be experiencing?
Answer: summer
18. What season would the Southern Hemisphere be
experiencing in this diagram?
Answer: winter
19. Define winter solstice, summer solstice, vernal equinox, and autumnal
equinox.
Answer:
winter solstice – first day of winter, shortest amount of daylight
hours
summer solstice - first day of summer, longest amount of
daylight hours
vernal equinox – first day of spring, equal hours of daylight and
darkness
autumnal equinox – first day of autumn, equal hours of daylight
and darkness
20. During which two seasons is neither hemisphere pointed towards the
sun?
Answer: spring and fall (autumn)