These are just terms that we use to describe the moon's appearance as its month-long lunar day unfolds for us. The phases of the moon are simply the way the moon appears to us as we watch one lunar day pass. As we look at the moon, we can describe its phase changes this way. When the moon is new and before it reaches half-lit, it is 'waxing crescent'; it's getting bigger, and it's still shaped like a crescent. After the half-illumination point, it is waxing gibbous; it's getting bigger, and it's beyond the crescent stage. After the full moon and before it reaches half-lit, it is waning gibbous, and after that it is waning crescent.
The Moon has no light of its own, and the only reason we can see it is reflected light from the Sun. When the Earth gets between the Sun and the Moon part of the Moon disc will become invisible on account of being in the Earth's shadow.
the moon waxes and wanes as the earth moves and blocks certain rays of suns from hitting the moon. The moon, which doesn't put of any light of it's own, reflects what light hits it and we can see those sections, but the other parts which the earth is blocking the sun from it, we can not see.
when the moon waxes, the portion that we can see appears to get bigger, but it actually stays the same.
wax and wane
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to wane: waned (like the moon grows larger when it waxes and as it wanes it grows smaller.)
the moon waxes and wanes as the earth moves and blocks certain rays of suns from hitting the moon. The moon, which doesn't put of any light of it's own, reflects what light hits it and we can see those sections, but the other parts which the earth is blocking the sun from it, we can not see.
when the moon waxes, the portion that we can see appears to get bigger, but it actually stays the same.
wax and wane
The revolving of the earth and the rotating of the moon.
Waxes and wanes
During the time at sea, the sailors saw the moon wax and wane three times.
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the earth blocks it from the sun
You mean the name? Wayne. What the moon does? wane.
Yes it does because it revolves around the sun