The Moon Response To The Text

The Moon

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1) What is the size of the Moon compared to?

a. Half the size of Earth b. Half the size of Mars

c. Quarter the size of Earth d. Quarter the size of Mars

2) How is the Moon a natural satellite?

→ it orbits our planet as a squashed circle known as an eclipse

3) True or False: It takes between 29.5 and 37.3 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth.

a. True b. False

4) Why do we think that the Moon changes shapes?

→  because the sun shines on different parts of the moon and it looks like it changes

5) Which phase allows us to only see the unlit side of the Moon?

a. New Moon b. First Quarter

c. Waning Gibbous d. Dark Moon

6) True or False: The Gibbous Moon looks like a Full Moon but only three quarters of it?

a. True b. False

7) Describe what an eclipse is?

→ A solar eclipse occurs when when the moon blocks the sun and its basically like it's night time but in the day because the moon moves to  fast

8) What are the two different types of eclipse?

→ a lunar eclipse is when the sun goes behind the moon and it turns  red/orange

9) Why shouldn’t we look directly at a Solar Eclipse?

→because you could go blinnd if u look at it directly 

10) A Lunar Eclipse is what colour?

→red/orange