Question

Match the following:

Column A	Column B
a. New moon	(i) Seen after three days of new moon
b. Crescent moon	(ii) The first half of the moon
c. The full moon	(iii) The second half on the moon
d. Gibbous moon	(iv) Amavasya
e. First-quarter	(v) Purnima

Accepted Answer

a. — (iv),
When the moon is between the earth and the sun, we cannot see the moon at all. This is called the new moon or Amavasya.

b. — (i),
The moon is the natural satellite of the earth. Two or three days after the new moon, we see only a part of the moon. This is called the crescent moon.

c. — (v),
Within two weeks we see the full moon (Purnima) when the earth comes between the sun and the moon.

d. — (iii),
Different shapes of the moon are called phases of the moon. When little more than half of the moon is visible to us, it is called the gibbous moon.

e. — (ii),
The half-moon is the phase of the moon when only half its illuminated surface is visible from the earth. It is also called first-quarter.

Column A Column B

a. New moon (iv) Amavasya

b. Crescent moon (i) Seen after three days of new moon

c. The full moon (v) Purnima

d. Gibbous moon (iii) The second half on the moon

e. First-quarter (ii) The first half of the moon

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