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First Quarter
Third Quarter
New Moon
Full Moon
Gravity
Tides
Waxing
Gibbous
Waning
Crescent
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Spring Tide
Neap Tide
Revolve
Rotate
This phase of the
Moon cannot be seen
from Earth.
High tides are higher
than usual and low
tides are lower than
usual.
A force which
increases with mass
and with proximity.
The left half of the
Moon is bright.
Orbit
The right half of the
Moon is bright.
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This phase is less than
90 degrees from the
Sun in the sky.
This phase of the
Moon rises at sunset
and sets at sunrise.
It takes Earth 24 hours
to do this.
This phase is not quite
full and means
“humpbacked.”
The periodic rise and
Growing or increasing,
fall of the water level
like a string being
due to gravitational pull
dipped in wax
of the Moon and Sun.
These tides are during
first quarter and third
quarter Moon.
This term means
decreasing.