D. exercise 4: and answer the question in the lab report section: student 1: the phase of the moon depends on how the moon, sun and earth are aligned with one another. during some alignments only a small portion of the moon's surface will receive light from the sun, in which case we would see a crescent moon. student 2: i disagree. the moon would always get the same amount of sunlight; it's just that in some alignments earth casts a larger shadow on the moon. that's why the moon isn't always a full moon. e. exercise 5 answer the questions in the lab report section.