Formation
Features
Phases
Eclipses
Chance
100
Number of Layers in the Moons Internal Structure.
What is 2?
100
Percent lit at any given time in its orbit.
What is 50%?
100
Phases that are seen lit on the right side?
What is Waxing Phases?
100
Sun - Earth - Moon
What kind of eclipse is this?
What is Lunar?
100
True or false: only one man has walked on the moon.
False
200
Describe the most widely accepted Moon formation theory.
The giant impact theory. A mars sized object collided with the Earth and the debris began revolving around the earth forming the moon.
200
What are the mountainous regions on the moon?
What are the Highlands?
200
(not lit)
What is New Moon?
200
What eclipse did we see last year?
What is Solar Eclipse?
200
Moon feature that was once thought to be an ocean.
What is Maria?
300
What caused the maria to form?
Lava Flows from meteor strikes
300
Dark grey lava flows found on the Moon's surface.
What is Maria?
300
Cause of Moon Phases.
What is the Positions of the Earth, Moon, and the Sun or the Location of the Moon in its orbit?
300
What eclipse has a full moon?
What is Lunar?
300
What phase(s) is it when you are seeing 1/2 of the lit portion of the moon?
What is 1st or 3rd Quarter Moon.
400
What formed the impact craters? What are the long white streaks coming out of them?
Meteor strikes and rays.
400
How did rilles form?
Lava flows combining into a river.
400
What is 3rd Quarter?
400
Solar Eclipse Moon Phase
What is New Moon?
400
What side of the moon is lit when it is waning?
Left
500
List the features of the moon from oldest to youngest.
Highlands, Rilles, Maria, Impact craters, Craters with rays
500
How can we tell how young a crater is?
By looking at the rays
500
How long is a sidereal month compared to a synodic month? Why are they different?
27 1/3, 29.5. Sidereal is in comparison to the stars, synodic is how long it takes for the moon to complete a full cycle of phases.
500
When can you observe a Solar Eclipse?
What is Day Time?
500
What is the layer on the moon made of debris from impacts?
Regolith