Chapter 2 - Moon

Question 0

What do we call the mountains on the moon?

Answer 0

Highlands

Question 1

What is the center of the moon with a radius of 300-425 kilometers?

Answer 1

Core

Question 2

What is the ONLY natural satellite of the earth?

Answer 2

Moon

Question 3

What is the lighter shadow cast by the earth or the moon?

Answer 3

Penumbra eclipse

Question 4

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

Answer 4

Neil Armstrong

Question 5

What is the part of the moon with the average thickness of about 70 kilometers?

Answer 5

Crust

Question 6

What is it when the moon passes between the sun and the earth and the moons shadow is east of the earth?

Answer 6

Solar eclipse

Question 7

What are spots on the moon that are formed by meteorite impact on the moon?

Answer 7

Craters

Question 8

What is it when the lighted side of the moon is facing away from the earth?

Answer 8

New moon

Question 9

What are the trench like valleys of the moon, usually caused by collapsed lava tubes?

Answer 9

Rilles

Question 10

What is it when the earth passes between the sun and the mon and the earth’s shadows is cast on the moon?

Answer 10

Lunar eclipse

Question 11

What is the part of the moon that is not having sunlight on it?

Answer 11

Darkside

Question 12

What is it when the lighted side of the moon faces the earth?

Answer 12

Full moon

Question 13

What was the name of the NASA Mission whose goal it was to land on the moon?

Answer 13

Apollo 11

Question 14

What is it when the moon passes completely through the dark shadow of the earth?

Answer 14

Total eclipse

Question 15

What is the lighter shadow cast by the earth or moon?

Answer 15

Penumbra

Question 16

What are the dark areas of the moon that were once thought to be “seas”?

Answer 16

Maria

Question 17

How long does it take for the moon to rotate on its axis?

Answer 17

27.5 days

Question 18

What do we call the amount of moon that we see?

Answer 18

Phase

Question 19

How long does it take for the moon to orbit the earth?

Answer 19

27.5 days

Question 20

Does the moon have
A. Liquid water
B. Extreme temperature differences between the light and dark side

Answer 20

B. Extreme temperature differences between the light and dark side

Question 21

What is the moon’s difference in gravity due to?

Answer 21

The difference in mass

Question 22

What can we not see about the moon?

Answer 22

The far side of the moon

Question 23

How many lunar eclipses are there every year?

Answer 23

2 - 3

Question 24

How many Apollo Missions were there between 1969 - 1972?

Answer 24

6

Question 25

How often do high tides occur?

Answer 25

Every 12 hours and 25 minutes

Question 26

What has the greatest effect on our tides?

Answer 26

The moon

Question 27

How many Americans have walked on the moon?

Answer 27

12

Question 28

How often do solar eclipses happen in the same location?

Answer 28

Every 360 years

Question 29

What direction does the moon RISE?

Answer 29

The east

Question 30

How much of the moon’s surface is reflecting light?

Answer 30

1/2

Question 31

What is the gravity on the moon?

Answer 31

1/6

Question 32

Be able to label the different moons

Answer 32

First quarter
Waxing crescent
New
Waning crescent
Last quarter
Waning gibbous
Full
Waxing gibbous

Question 34

Is the dark side and the far side of the moon the same thing?

YES or NO

Answer 34

NO

Question 35

What is the phases of the moon when the lite side of the moon gets bigger - (we see more)

Answer 35

waxing

Question 36

What does the gravity of the moon cause?

Answer 36

tides

Question 37

How may high and low tides are there per day?

Answer 37

2

Question 38

Where are high tides?

Answer 38

The side of the earth facing the moon and the opposite side