Solar System Quiz

Question 1

1)Fission(moon theories)

Answer 1

The fast spinning, molten earth lost some material, that was flung into space and formed our moon

Question 2

2)co-formstion(moon theories)

Answer 2

The moon and the earth formed at about the same time from the debris orbiting the sun

Question 3

3)capture(moon theories)

Answer 3

The moon was a rogue celestial body that was captured by the earths gravitation feild.

Question 4

4)impact(moon theories)

Answer 4

During the earths early formation a planet sized object struck it. The impact destroyed the object and released debris unto space which eventually formed the moon we see today.

Question 5

Moons tineline

Answer 5

Earth is formed 4.5 billions years ago from dust orbiting the sun

A plant sized object collides with the early earth

Ejected matter orbiting the earth forms the moon

Question 6

What did meteroid bombardment cause?

Answer 6

Melt the surface, forming magma oceans.

Once cooled caused creaters and raised mountains

Question 7

What did the largest impacts carve out

Answer 7

Great basins and cracked the surface enough fir the lave to flow from the moons interior
Over the last 3 billion yesrs the moons interior has been geologically in active

Only bombardment that continues to this day is from micrometeroids(size of grains of sand)

Question 8

Whay does the moon have light and dark spots?

Answer 8

The dark spots are young plains called msria-formed by collisions from comets, meteorites and asteroids.

Question 9

Ages of lunar areas

Answer 9

Lunar maria-3.1-3.8 billion years old

Lunar highlands-4.5 billion years

Question 10

What is a meteroid?

Answer 10

Lumps of rocks or iron in outer soace that can vary in size

Question 11

What are the maria?

Answer 11

When the moon was first observed through telescopes, they thought the basins were filled with water, so it was named maria(seas in latin)

Question 12

What is the rille?

Answer 12

Trench like valleys that run through the maria bedrock

Question 13

What are rays on the moon?

Answer 13

Consist of shattered rick and dust that were splashed out by meteroids

Question 14

What is the regolith?

Answer 14

the soil on the moon, it means lose rock materials

Question 15

Why are some areas on the moon dark and some are light coloured?

Answer 15

The dark coloured areas on the moon sre called maria, they are young plains composed of basalt. Basalt is a dark-coloured, fine-grained, ingenous rock. The light areas on the moon are mountains that were lifted up from the impacts if the meteroids.

Question 16

The moons motions

Answer 16

This 27.3 day cycle is known as a sidereal month

However, it takes 29.5 days for the moon to return to it’s same phase (known as a synodic month)

Question 17

The moons motions

Answer 17

When the moon is increasing in appearance it is said to be waxing (this occurs from new moon → full moon and lasts about 2 weeks)

When the moon is decreasing in appearance it is said to be waning (this occurs from full moon → new moon and lasts about 2 weeks)

Question 18

The moons motions

Answer 18

When the moon is less than half lit it is called a Crescent Moon

When the moon is more than half lit it is called a Gibbous Moon

Question 19

The moons motions

Answer 19

Depending on which phase the moon is in, it will raise and set at a different time throughout the day or night