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| Why does the moon look different at different times of the month? | Because the moon changes positions with respect to the earth and teh soon. As the moon revloves around the earth, the amount of sunlight on the side of the moon that faces the earth changes. |
| What is a moon phase? | The different appearances of the moon due to its changing position. |
| When the moon is waxing is the sunlit part getting larger or smaller? | larger |
| When the moon is waning , is the sunlit fraction getting larger or smaller? | smaller |
| why do we only see one side of the moon | because the period of rotation is the same as its period of revolution |
| What is an lunar eclipse? | when the earth comes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of the earth falls on the moon |
| What is a solar eclipse? | when the moon comes between the earth and the sun and the shadow of the moon falls on part of the earth |
| What does a solar eclipse look like? | The moon covers the sun but you can see the sun peeking out from the edges (corona) |
| During what phases of the moon doe eclipses occur? | New and full moon phases |
| why isn't there an eclipse every month? | Because the moon's orbit is tilted so the moon is out of the earth's shadow for most full moons and the earth is out of the moon's shadow for most new moons. |
| What is closer to the earth -- the moon or the sun | the moon (384,000 km). The sun is 150 million km (or one AU) |
| What is a highland on the moon? | mountains |
| What are the period of rotation and revolution for the moon? | 27 days, 8 hours |
| what is the surface temperature of the moon? | -170 t0 134 degrees C (celsius) |
