The phases of the moon are caused by

A) the moon revolving around the sun and Earth.

B) Earth revolving around the sun and the sun's light being reflect off the moon.

C) the moon revolving around Earth and the moon reflecting sunlight towards Earth.

D) the moon revolving around Earth with sunlight reflecting off of Earth towards the moon.

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Nikolai Blackburn

20 July, 23:50

The phases of the moon are caused by

A) the moon revolving around the sun and Earth.

B) Earth revolving around the sun and the sun's light being reflect off the moon.

C) the moon revolving around Earth and the moon reflecting sunlight towards Earth.

D) the moon revolving around Earth with sunlight reflecting off of Earth towards the moon.

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Denzel Nguyen · Answer 1

Might be B) Earth revolving around the sun and the sun's light being reflected off the moon because the moon orbits earth and earth orbits the sun so the sun lights the moon depending on what both of the planets' positions are.