🌓 Growing or shrinking?
🦉 Right side lit means the Moon is growing. Left side lit means it's shrinking. Ten Moons: which is which?
Peabody is getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 1) Growing (waxing). Lit on the right means growing, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 2) Shrinking (waning). Lit on the left means shrinking, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 3) Growing (waxing). Lit on the right means growing, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 4) Shrinking (waning). Lit on the left means shrinking, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 5) Growing (waxing). Lit on the right means growing, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 6) Shrinking (waning). Lit on the left means shrinking, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 7) Full. All of it is lit: that's a full Moon, between growing and shrinking.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 8) Growing (waxing). Lit on the right means growing, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 9) Shrinking (waning). Lit on the left means shrinking, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is this Moon growing or shrinking? (Moon 10) Growing (waxing). Lit on the right means growing, here in the Northern Hemisphere.
More space quizzes
- 🪐 Planets in order
- 📏 Which is bigger?
- 🌡️ Hot or cold?
- 🌙 Moon shapes
- 🔭 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.”