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Question 1

Tide

Answer 1

Rise or fall in the ocean surface

Question 2

Moon phase

Answer 2

Reflects the change in appearance of the moon

Question 3

Solar Eclipse

Answer 3

The moon moves directly between the sun and earth and cast a shadow on earth

Question 4

Lunar eclipse

Answer 4

When earth passed between the sun and the moon and casts a shadow on the moon.

Question 5

Maria

Answer 5

The dark colored flat lava filled regions on the moons surface.

Question 6

Regolith

Answer 6

The layer of dusty lunar material produced by collisions between asteroids and comets and the Moon.

Question 7

How many days does it take the moon to revolve around the Earth?

Answer 7

27.3 days

Question 8

A complete lunar phase cycle takes 29.5 days, what is this called?

Answer 8

Synodic month

Question 9

Do we ever see the back side of the moon?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

What causes a ride to rise or fall?

Answer 10

The gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon

Question 11

What is the rise of the sea called?

Answer 11

High tide

Question 12

After the sea level rises how many hours does it take for the seal level to drop?

Answer 12

6 hours

Question 13

Which is farther from Earth, and the sun or the moon?

Answer 13

Sun

Question 14

Does the moon or the sun cause a greater effect on Earths tides?

Answer 14

Moon

Question 15

How are the sun, the Earth and the moon aligned for the spring tide

Answer 15

The sun the earth and the moon are in a straight line.

Question 16

How are the sun the wary and the moon aligned for a neap tide?

Answer 16

They make a ninety degree angle

Question 17

What does the phase of the moon you see depend on?

Answer 17

Depends on the position of the moon earth and the sun relative to another.

Question 18

When does a new moon occur?

Answer 18

When the moon is in between the earth and the sun

Question 19

How many phases of the moon are there?

Answer 19

8

Question 20

What is the definition of a waxing phase?

Answer 20

The illuminated portion that we see appears larger each night.

Question 21

what is the definition of waning phase?

Answer 21

Where the portion of the moon that we see gets smaller and smaller every night.

Question 22

What are the moon phase names?

Answer 22

1st quarter waxing crescent new waning crescent 3rd quarter waning gibbous full waxing gibbous

Question 23

Where is the word month derived from?

Answer 23

Moon

Question 24

How is the earth moon and sun aligned during a solar eclipse?

Answer 24

Straight line

Question 25

How is the earth moon and sun aligned during a lunar eclipse?

Answer 25

They are in a straight like and it’s sun moon earth

Question 26

Are there mountains on the moon?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

Which side of the moon is thicker?

Answer 27

Dark side of the moon

Question 28

Is the mantle or the moon a solid or a liquid?

Answer 28

Solid

Question 29

What did the Clementine spacecraft do? (2 things)

Answer 29

Confirmed the thickness of the crust of the moon and provided information on the mineral content of rocks

Question 30

What did the Lunar Prospector do? (3 things)

Answer 30

Took surface photos of the moon confirmed the moon has a small iron rich cure and collected presence if ice-water on the moon.

Question 31

What is the Giant Impact Theory?

Answer 31

The moon formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a marsh sized object collided with earth and gas and debit were thrown into orbit then it condenser into the moon

Question 32

What is an umbra?

Answer 32

Total eclipse darkest shadow

Question 33

What is a penumbra?

Answer 33

Partial exlipse

Question 34

How are the depressions on the moon formed?

Answer 34

Meteors