ANSWER 7

7. Describe what you have observed about the Moon in the night sky.

Its shape changes day by day as well its position in the sky. Each passing day after a New Moon, the Moon is seen about 12 degrees further up and further east day after day until after 7 days it is half shape and seen overhead at sunset, and after 14 days seen as a Full Moon rising in the east at sunset.

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