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MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write in your paper.
1.This is the second phase which occurs after a few days of the new moon, and is known as _____?

a. First-quarter
b. Waning crescent moon
c. Third-quarter moon
d. Waxing crescent

2. The Moon’s mean density is _____

a. 1.34 grams per cubic cm

b. 2.34 grams per cubic cm
c. 3.34 grams per cubic cm
d. 4.34 grams per cubic

3. Who was the first person to land on the moon?

a. Georgy Dobrovolsky
b. Galileo Galilei
c. Neil Armstron
d. Eli Cologne 

4. The moon takes how many days to revolve around the earth?

a. 15 days
b. 30 days
c. 29 days
d. 27 days

5. Why does the moon have different phases?

a. It moves around the earth

b. It moves around the sun
c. It follows the sun around the earth
d. It disappears behind other plants

6. In which phase the moon mostly like, when its between the earth and sun?

a. New
b. Full
c. 3rd quarter
d. 5th quarter

7. Why moon takes 29 ½ days to complete one cycle. This period called a _____?

a. Year
b. Month
c. Day
 d. None of these

8. Which following the correctly describes the movement of earth, moon and sun?
a. Moon revolves around the sun, earth revolves around moon
b. Sun revolves around the moon, moon revolves around the earth
c. Moon revolves around earth, earth revolves around sun
d. Sun and moon revolve around earth
9. Which last 29 days and half days and is the length of time that it takes for the moon to complete it’s
eight phase cycle?
a. Moon
b. Satellite
c. Synodic month
d. Full moon
10. What is the correct moon phase order?
a. New moon, waxing gibbous, full moon, first quarter, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, last
quarter, waning crescent
b. New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last
quarter, waning crescent
c. Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning
crescent, New moon
d. Waxing gibbous,new moon, full moon ,waning gibbous, last quarter, first quarter, waning
crescent
11. How do you call the 2nd phase?
a. New moon
b. Waxing crescent
c. Full moon
d. Last quarter
12. Why does the moon appear to move across the sky during the night?
a. It travels around earth everyday
b. Earth rotates on its axis
c. It extremely far away
d. All object in space are moving
13. What happens when see the moon “phases” change? The moon appears to change
a. Color
b. Locations
c. Shape
d. Distance

14. Name the moon phase that would come AFTER this moon?
a. Waning crescent
 b. Waxing crescent
c. Waning gibbous
d. Waxing gibbous
15. What is the movement of earth on it’s axis called?
a. Phases
b. Flotation
c. Revolution
d. Rotation
16. What phases of the moon would you see on this night?
a. Half moon
b. Gibbous moon
c. New moon
d. Full moon
17. Why do we see phases of the moon during a month?
a. We see only the lit part of the moon as it moves around the earth
b. Parts of the moon are always in shadow
c. Eclipses of the moon occur nightly
d. The moon is smaller when its farther from us
18. Which moon phase is when you can’t see the moon at all?
a. Waning crescent
b. Full moon
c. Waxing crescent
d. New moon
19. Moon only borrows light from the _____?
a. Sun
b. Satellite
c. Waning crescent
d. Moon
20. It’s a object that revolve around an object bigger than they are?
a. Satellite
b. Sun
c. Waning crescent
d. Full moon
21. How many days does the cycle pattern of the moon takes on the September?
a. 27 days
b. 28 days
c. 30 days
d. 23 days
22. Which wrong statement about full moon phase?
a. A full moon appears as entire circle in the sky
b. A week after the first quarter moon, you can see the moon lighted side of the moon
 c. A full moon when the moon is between the sun and earth
d. A full moon is opposite the sun in it’s orbit around the earth

23. Name the moon phases

a. First quarter
b. Last quarter
c. New moon
d. Full moon

24. What moon phase come right BEFORE this one?

a. First quarter
b. New moon
c. Full moon
d. Last quarter
25. The cycle of the moon lasts about a__?
a. Day
b. Year
c. Weeks
d. Month

B. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is asked by choosing the answer inside the box. Write your
answer on the space provided.
New moon first quarter full moon last quarter
Waxing crescent Waxing gibbous Moon Waning crescent moon

_____1. A week after the first quarter moon, you can see half of the moon’s lighted side of the moon.
_____2. During the phases, the moon is not visible from the earth.
_____3. A week after the new moon, you see half of lighted side of the moon.
_____4. When the moon seems to be growing, it is undergoing a waxing phase.
_____5. It appears to have different phases because of the different amount of light it reflect from the sun
as it revolves around the earth.
_____6. The most portion of the moon is visible in the sky, it is known as.
_____7. Soon the moon disappears again; another new moon appears.
_____8. The illuminated part of the moon decreases from the lit- up semicircle at third quarter until
disappears entirely at new moon.

C. TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is true about the moon and FALSE if is not true.
1. The moon is not a planet but a satellite.
2. New moon occurs when the earth is between sun and moon.
3. Gibbous moon occurs when we see more than half of the moon is lighted.
4. After gibbous moon, half of the moon’s face is seen.
5. After crescent moon, half 29 ½ days to complete one cycle.
6. Moon has light of its own.
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