🌙 Moon shapes
🦉 Peabody draws a Moon. Can you name its shape? Crescent, quarter, gibbous or full.
Peabody is getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 1) Waxing crescent. Waxing crescent: lit on the right, growing.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 2) First quarter. First quarter: lit on the right, growing.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 3) Waxing gibbous. Waxing gibbous: lit on the right, growing.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 4) Full Moon. Full Moon: all lit.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 5) Waning gibbous. Waning gibbous: lit on the left, shrinking.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 6) Last quarter. Last quarter: lit on the left, shrinking.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 7) Waning crescent. Waning crescent: lit on the left, shrinking.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 8) First quarter. First quarter: lit on the right, growing.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 9) Full Moon. Full Moon: all lit.
- What is this Moon's shape called? (Moon 10) Last quarter. Last quarter: lit on the left, shrinking.
More space quizzes
- 🪐 Planets in order
- 📏 Which is bigger?
- 🌡️ Hot or cold?
- 🌓 Growing or shrinking?
- 🔭 Read the sky card
- ☄️ Shooting star months
- 🌕 How many moons?
- ⏳ Days and years
- 🛟 Sky safety
“Wrong answers are fine. That's how astronomers learn too: look, guess, look again.”