Run the Moon through its month
Exercise and reference answers
- Steps
- New moon
- Waxing crescent
- First quarter
- Waxing gibbous
- Full moon
- Third quarter
- Instructions
- Tap the Moon's shapes one by one in the order they appear across a single month.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Astronomy (CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 "Earth, Moon, and Sky" and Ch 5 "Radiation and Spectra", section 4.5 Phases and Motions of the Moon_
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