Is it true that the moon gets it's light from the sun? and can someone?

Question

EXPLAINE TO ME HOW THE MOON GET IT'S LIGHT FROM THE SUN DURING THE NITE,WHISLT IT'S DAY TIME IN AFRICA AND NITE IN AMERICA,SINCE THERE IS ONLY ONE MOON AND ONE SUN

Answer 1

Yes the moon reflects the sun's light. If you draw a picture with three spheres arranged in a triangle with the earth at the top, you will see that it doesn't block the moon from getting the suns light while the moon faces the dark side of earth.

Answer 2

The sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces it all the time. The same thing is true for the earth. The reason we have night and day on earth is because some times we are on the side of the earth on which the sun is shining (day) and at others we are on the other side of the earth in its own shadow (night).

Try this experiment. In a dark room have someone shine a torch (representing the sun) on a basket ball (representing the earth). You will see that one side is light the other is dark. Now mark a spot on the ball (representing where you live) and turn the ball slowly in your hand. You will see that sometimes the spot is in the light and sometimes the spot is in the dark (day and night for you). Observe that the torch does not do the moving the rotation of the earth causes it to be night and day. The sun is always shining on some part of the earth regardless of wether it is night or day were you live.

The same thing is true for the moon. Its just like a smaller version of the earth in space with the sun shining on one side of it all the time.

Answer 3

Just like the earth, the moon gets all of its light from the sun. The sun burns continously and anything in its pathway gets that light. The moon revolves around the earth, and the amount of light that we see on the moon (which varies during the moon's monthly cycle) is dependent on the relative position of the earth & the moon (and how much light passes through). So, when the earth is directly in front of the moon, no light reaches the moon (just like we cast our own shadow)...this is called new moon. When the moon is completely unblocked by the earth, we see a full moon. And, as it moves in between, we see all the other phases (e.g. half moon, crescent, etc.)

The light that passes to the moon, has NOTHING to do with the earth's night & day. Rather, it is completely determined by how much of the sun is blocked by the earth. I hope that made sense.

Answer 4

Yes it is true. The light from the moon is actually a reflection of light from the sun. We are orbitting the sun so that it is in a different place at different times of the day. The sun reflects the light on to the moon so that somewhere else has night because the moon orbits earth(I think). Then we get solar and lunar eclipses when one is directly in front of the other so you can not see the other.

Answer 5

True. If you draw a picture of the sun, moon, and earth as seen from outer space above the earth's north pole, they will be circles; you can see that the sun can illuminate the moon unless it is directly in the earth's shadow. (That's called a lunar eclipse.) Suppose that you color the half of the earth that is away from the sun as black, representing night. Pick any point on the edge of the dark side and draw a tangent. This will represent the horizon, and depending on where you have put the moon, the moon will be above or below this horizon. Since the moon orbits the earth, it will be above the horizon line half the time. Of course, the earth is rotating as well, so if you suppose that the horizon line is rotating with it, you can see that the moon will rise and set.

Answer 6

The moon reflects the sun's light. Just because you can't see the sun (i.e. at night time) that does not mean that there is anything between the moon and the sun stopping the moon being lit by the sun. However, the phases of the moon are caused by the moon orbitting the earth and the earth coming between the sun and the moon. Further information here http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/phases.html

Answer 7

First take a flash light (representing the sun), basketball (earth), and a ball of aluminum foil (moon) to a dark room. Turn the flashlight on, then shine it on the basketball, Put the foil behind and a bit above the basketball.

You will see that half of the basketball that is bright and the other half is dark. Imagine Africa is on the bright side (day), and America is on the dark side (night). The foil will also have a bright side and a dark side. The bright side is what you see as the moon's light.

That, my friend, is how the sun and moon work together so the moon shines.

Answer 8

the moon is always getting the sun light like earth does. and like the earth it rotates on its axis. To answer the second part of your question, it's better to use an example: in the mountains although the sun is already below the horizon and valleys are in dark you can still see the tops illuminated by the sun light for a while. So the moon is much much above us than any mountain (360.000 Km) and it gets the sun light while on earth is night time.
I though this was the easiest way to answer.

Answer 9

The moon reflects the suns easy in the event that they are interior the line of sight of another, and observing the perspective of the two the moon and sunlight in terms of the earth, we get various quantities and shapes of light achieving the earth; complete moon to cresent moon as an occasion, then a sparkling moon (that's no longer reflecting any easy from the sunlight to the earth).

Answer 10

Because you know the sun is still there, but in different parts of the world. Why do you think the moon looks like its in different shapes? Because some of the light is blocked by the earth, some isn't. A lunar eclipse is where all of sun's light is blocked out by the earth, making the moon totally black.