Asked by mimiii

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 reflected 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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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
C

The phases occur because the Moon orbits Earth and different portions of the Moon's sunlit hemisphere are visible from Earth as the geometry changes (new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full, etc.).