The moon revolves around the earth in its orbit

• Moons are small bodies that orbit around a planet
• Earths moon is a small rocky body, that does not make its own light.
• The moon shines because it is reflecting the suns light off its surface.
• The moon revolves around the earth is an anticlockwise direction.
• The moon takes about 29.5 days to orbit the earth once
• As the moon revolves around the earth it is lit by light from the sun. when a person looks at the moon they the part of the moon that is lit up. As the moon orbits we see the lit up part of the moon differently each time in till the cycle is over, when the cycle ends the cycle of moon phases restarts this is why we have moon phases.