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Exploring Celestial Bodies
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Exploring Celestial Bodies

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True or false: We always see the same side of the Moon.

True

True or false: The near side of the Moon has both light and dark regions.

True

True or false: Tidal forces are responsible for why we only see one side of the Moon.

True

True or false: The rotation period of the Moon is exactly equal to its orbital period.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The far side of the Moon is forever hidden from our view.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: To view the far side of the Moon, we would need to go there or send a spacecraft.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The phases of the Moon occur due to the Moon's position in its orbit with respect to the incoming sunlight.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon is always moving in an eastward direction?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon gets closer to the Sun as it moves in the sky?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The new moon rises with the Sun and sets at sunset?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon transits the meridian at the same time as the Sun?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The near side of the Moon is always illuminated?

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon is dark at some point or another?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon has a dark side that is always dark?

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon goes through a full lunar cycle every month?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

True or false: The moon is approximately the same age as Earth?

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The moon is currently in the new phase.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The waxing crescent moon rises later and later as it gets closer to the first quarter phase.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The first quarter moon sets around midnight.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The waxing gibbous moon rises in the afternoon.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The full moon rises just at sunset.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The waning gibbous moon rises very late at night.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The third quarter moon sets at noon.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The waxing crescent phase of the moon occurs when the moon is about one-fourth of the way around in its revolution around the earth.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

The first quarter phase of the moon is also known as the half moon.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The waning gibbous phase of the moon occurs when the moon is coming around to basically opposite the Earth from the Sun.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The third quarter phase of the moon occurs when the moon has gone three-quarters of the way around in its orbit.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

The moon disappears during the third quarter phase.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

The synodic month, or solar month, is the time it takes for the moon to make one full revolution around the Earth.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

From any given phase to any given phase, it takes twenty-nine and a half days to get there.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

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