1. One spring day your teacher takes the class outside and you watch the sun partly disappear. You look through a pinhole in a box. Why did some of the sun disappear?

The sun often disappears in the spring
The pinhole in the box wasn't round
The moon blocked part of its light
Earth's shadow blocked the light

2. Using the picture below, how does the moon appear to change from picture 5 to picture 8

Less of the moon is lit.
More of the moon is lit.
The same amount of the moon is lit.
Nothing appears to have changed.

3. Using the picture pattern below, what would the moon look like in it's next phase?



a. b. c. d.


a
b
c
d

4. What phase of the moon would you see on this night?

half moon
gibbous moon
new moon
full moon

5. What happens when you see the moon's "phases" change? The moon appears to change

color
location
shape
distance

6. Why does the moon appear to move across the sky during the night?

It travels around Earth every day
Earth rotates on its axis
It is extremely far away
All objects in space are moving