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Assessment: (Post-Test)
A. Answer the questions correctly. Write your answers in the blank.
1. What is the actual shape of the moon?
2. Does the moon change its actual shape?
3. What affects the pattern changes in the appearance of the moon?
What are the different appearance of the moon? Write their names in order.
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Answers & Comments
Answer:
1. oblate spheroid, meaning it has the shape of a ball that is slightly flattened.
2. Our moon's shape doesn't really change
3. The Moon gradually looks a little different each day, depending on where it is in its orbit. The Moon's lunar cycle begins when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth are aligned (the Moon is between Earth and the Sun) and the illuminated hemisphere of the Moon faces away from Earth.
The different appearance of moon:
New Moon
Waxing crescent
First quarter
Waxing gibbous
Full moon
Waning gibbous
Third quarter
Waning crescent