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THE CALENDAR
Activity no.5

Directions: Read and comprehend the following. Write your answer on the space provided.

Set A. Identify what is being asked on each item.

______1. It is a system of organizing the time units for the purpose of keeping track of time
over extended periods of time.
______2. A calendar system used for keeping track of the passage of days and for counting
time far into the past or future.
______3. It was this calendar that added one extra day every four years because it had
been calculated that the earth takes 366 days to complete its movement around
the sun.
______4. A calendar that the 10 days had to be dropped out of the calendar to bring the
vernal equinox back to March 21 and making the average length of the year more
closely approximate the tropical year.
______5. An ancient monument design to keep time based on stones that are aligned with
the directions of the Sun and Moon during their risings and settings at critical times
of the year.

Set B. Enumeration.
6. Two traditional functions of Calendar
a.

b.

7. Specific motion of the Earth and Moon as natural units for tracking and keeping the days
on the calendar.
a. Period: ___________________
b. Month: ___________________
c. Year: _____________________

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 THE PHASES AND MOTIONS OF THE MOON
Activity no.6

Directions: Read and comprehend the following. Write your answer on the space provided.

Set A. Identify what is being asked on each item.

__________1. Distance of the moon away from Earth.
__________2. Days it takes for the moon to travel completely around the Earth.
__________3. Does the moon shine with its own light? (Yes/No)
__________4. It refers to any of the varying appearances of the Moon as seen from Earth
as different amounts of the lunar disk are illuminated by the Sun.
__________5. How many lunar phases does the moon have?
__________6. A surface feature of the moon refers to the circular holes that are the result of
meteor impacts.
__________7. A surface feature of the moon refers to the dark areas, which are mostly
composed of dark basalts, which form from the rapid cooling of molten rock
from massive lava flows.

Set B. Match the description from column A with the corresponding term it describes in
column. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided before the number.
Column A _____15. A Lunar phase where moon
rises around noon and sets around
_____8. The phase of the Moon that is midnight.
opposite the Sun, as viewed from Column B
Earth, revealing the Moon’s
dayside. a. New Moon
_____9. It is also known as a third quarter b. Waxing Crescent
moon, rises around midnight and c. First quarter
sets around noon. d. Waxing Gibbous
_____10. A lunar phase that is nearly e. Full Moon
back to the point in its orbit where f. Waning Gibbous
its dayside directly faces the sun, g. Last Quarter
and all that we see from our h. Waning Crescent
perspective is a thin curve.
_____11. A lunar phase that occurs when
most of the moon is visible, except
for a small portion on the left side.
_____12. This is the invisible phase of the
Moon, with the illuminated side of
the Moon facing the Sun and the
night side facing Earth.
_____13. A lunar phase occurs when
most of the moon is visible, except
for a small portion on the right side.
_____14. This silver sliver of a Moon
occurs when the illuminated half of
the Moon faces mostly away from
Earth, with only a tiny portion
visible to us from our planet.