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The moon is always half illuminated by the sun. As the moon travels in its orbit around the Earth, the amount of the lighted-half that we can see changes, depending on the moon's position. There's nothing mysterious, difficult, or complicated about it. Take a flashlight and a soccer ball into a dark room. Turn on the flashlight, aim it at yourself, back off several feet, and then hold the soccer ball up at arm's length. Holding the soccer ball out in front of you, turn around slowly, and watch how you see different amounts of the lighted half of the ball, and different amounts of the dark half of the ball, depending on where it is in its path around you.
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∙ 15y agothe moon phrases are caused by the sun and the angle you are able to see the moon.
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∙ 13y agoThe moon phases happen because when the earth is in front of the moon and the sun is behind the earth, the sun and the earth project a shadow onto the moon.
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∙ 10y agoThe Moon has two phases, it changes everyday. The two things that effect it's change are the Moon revolving around the Earth and the Moon reflecting sunlight towards the Earth.
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∙ 11y agostudy island answer - all of these
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What real motion of the moon causes the pattern of moon phases?
the rotation of the moon causes the pattern of the moon phase.
How long is the moon phases and how long does the lunar cycle last and what causes the moon phase to change phase to phase?
The lunar cycle of phases is about 29.5 days. As the moon rotates and revolves around the earth, and the earth rotates and revolves around the sun, the shadows cast by the shifting positions of the moon and earth cause the moon to wane, wax, and "disappear". This is known as the lunar cycle.
What is the moon phase when there is a solar eclipse?
The Moon's phase is New Moon.
What moon phase is visible due south at midnight?
Full Moon. I think it could be more or less any phase. The phase of the Moon doesn't change much from moonrise until the Moon sets. True. But it is only the Full Moon that rises as the sun sets, and so is highest in the sky ... due south for northern-hemisphere observers ... at Midnight.
When the temperature drops below freezing which phase change causes frost to form on the grass?
The phase change is called deposition: water vapor changes directly to ice.
What causes the phase of the moon to change?
The moon spins
What real motion of the moon causes the pattern of moon phases?
the rotation of the moon causes the pattern of the moon phase.
What phase change causes water to evaporate?
This phase change is called evaporation.
What causes the moon to phase?
the way the sun light hits it during the rotation of the moon
What causes a substance to change a phase?
change in temperature
How long is the moon phases and how long does the lunar cycle last and what causes the moon phase to change phase to phase?
The lunar cycle of phases is about 29.5 days. As the moon rotates and revolves around the earth, and the earth rotates and revolves around the sun, the shadows cast by the shifting positions of the moon and earth cause the moon to wane, wax, and "disappear". This is known as the lunar cycle.
What phase of the moon causes the manic side of bipolar disorder?
The moon has no effect on which mood a person is in.
The different phases of the moon are caused by?
Actually it is not the rotation of the earth but the orbit of the moon around the earth that causes the phases of the moon. The moon's relationship in it's orbit with regard to the sun is what causes the phases to change. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, it is in a "new moon" phase because the only side of the moon that is lit with sunshine is the far side or the unseen side of the moon. When the earth is between the sun and the moon, the moon is at "full moon" phase. In between these two extremes gives us the 1st quarter and the 3rd quarter phases.
What phase is the moon in when its 3 o'clock in the afternoon?
Impossible to answer considering the phase change change on a day to day basis.
Does the moon's actual shape change when the phase changes?
no.
What makes the moon change it's phase?
Pregancy
In what phase is the moon when you do not see it?
The phase in which the moon is not visible from earth is called the "new" moon. It happens when the moon is aligned between the sun and the earth (every 28 days), which causes the side of the moon that we usually see to be in shadow.
