1. By Hannah Room 22

2. As the moon circles the Earth, the shape of the moon appears to change; this is because different amounts of the illuminated part of the moon are facing us. The shape varies from a full moon (when the Earth is between the sun and the moon) to a new moon (when the moon is between the sun and the Earth).

3. BLUE MOON BLUE MOON When two full moons occur in a single month, the second full moon is called a "Blue Moon."

4. CRESCENT MOON A crescent moon is part way between a half moon and a new moon, or between a new moon and a half moon.

5. FULL MOON A full moon appears as an entire circle in the sky.

6. GIBBOUS MOON A gibbous moon is between a full moon and a half moon, or between a half moon and a full moon

7. HALF MOON A half moon looks like half a circle. It is sometimes called a quarter moon (this Moon has completed one quarter of an orbit around the Earth from either the full or new position and one quarter of the moon's surface is visible from Earth).

8. NEW MOON The new moon is the phase of the moon when the moon is not visible from Earth, because the side of the moon that is facing us is not being lit by the sun.

9. Moonrise from Earth: The moon rises and sets every day, appearing on the horizon just like the sun. The time depends on the phase of the moon. It rises about 30 to 70 minutes later each day than the previous day, so the moon is out during daytime as often is it's out at night. At the time of the new moon, the moon rises at about the same time the sun rises, and it sets at about the same time the sun sets.sun Eventually, the moon rises so late at night that it's actually rising around sunrise, and it's setting around sunset. That's when it's a new moon once again.