Questions: a) What you think the Earth would look if you look at it from the Moon? Do you think it will have different phases? Why? b) How are the Earth and the Moon lit? Why do you think they are lit in such ways? c) How do the phases of the Earth change? (Include screenshots and times it takes using the counter.) d) How does the angle among the Sun, Earth and Moon change? e) What do you think is causing the phases of the Earth? How does your observation from the evidence fit with your thought? If not, what did you find out from this exercise that you did not know before?
Answers: a) If we look at Earth from the Moon, we can see different phases of the Earth because of the position of the Earth itself. b) The Earth and the Moon are lit by the light that is being reflected on them, as there is no other source of light other than the sunlight. c) As the Earth rotates, one side of the Earth moves away from the Sun causing that side to be in darkness. d) The angle change as the Sun, Earth and Moon rotates or revolves. e) The Earth’s movement. It shows the phases of the Earth from satellite view and from the Moon.
