Question

how does a cresent moon appear?

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

This is math?

The amount of moon surface you can see depends on its stage in orbit around the earth; the angle at which it receives the sun's light causes its visible area to change shape.

Answer 3

The crescent moon appears when there is an increasingly growing smaller angle at which the moon is receiving the sunlight.

Answer 4

so less than half would be visible .... right?

Answer 5

http://weneedfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Crescent-Moon-7.jpg
This is what a crescent moon looks like.

Answer 6

Please post this in the proper section known as Science. Thanks!