#1. A. Waxing crescent.
#2. 1.
#3. C.
#4. C.
Lighting flows around the outside of a truck, and the majority of the current flows from the cars metal cage into the ground below. It's not very safe to be in a car or truck during bad weather.
On Earth, gravity adds 9.8 m/s to the downwsrd speed of any falling object, every second. Beginning from zero downward speed, the speed grows to (8 x 9.8) = 78.4 m/s downward after 8 sec.