CBSE Class 8 Science
Question 5 of 12
Keeping Time with the Skies — Question 5
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Question Malini saw the Moon overhead in the sky at sunset.
(i) Draw the phase of the Moon that Malini saw.
(ii) Is the Moon in the waxing or the waning phase?
(i) At sunset, the Moon is overhead only during the first quarter (a week after New Moon), when the right half is illuminated. So, we need to draw a half Moon (right half bright, left half dark). (ii) Waxing phase (because it occurs after New Moon and the bright part is increasing).