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Welcome! This listing features a full-page homework quiz about the moon primarily for an astronomy unit in a middle school earth science course.

There are five sections in this homework quiz detailed behind the bullets below.

Sketch and label the last seven phases of the lunar cycle with the assistance of a vocabulary bank
Sketch and label the position of the moon, Earth, and the Sun during a new and full moon
Matching of fourteen vocabulary terms [Quarter moon, rotation, gibbous, revolution, full moon, penumbra, crater, crescent moon, umbra, lunar cycle, new moon, waxing, waning, and solar eclipse]
Multiple-choice – four questions about various subtopics from predicting upcoming dates of a certain lunar phase to the difference in the lunar plane of orbit with respect to Earth’s plane of orbit around the sun
Fill-in-the-blank – students find the homes for eleven vocabulary terms affiliated with tides in relation to the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth with the assistance of a word bank

This PDF file will become editable upon conversion to Microsoft Word using an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Program. This assessment includes a full-page key with the answers in red font.

This resource complements the following activities relating to the moon in my store.

Lunar Review Quest
Moon Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Set
Lunar Phase Cycle Identification and Sequencing Activity

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