Rotations/Orbits
This is the way that a planet or natural satellite travels around another object.
What is orbit
True or false: The moon was created when a piece of the earth broke free.
False
True or false: The first humans to walk on the moon were from Russia.
What is false
When the moon is "getting larger", we use this term
What is waxing.
This is Timmy's favorite moon phase.
What is the waning gibbous?
This is the way that a planet or natural satellite spins on its axis.
Rotation
It is the percentage (in size) that the moon is to the earth.
What is 27%
True or false: The first human moon landing took place in 1945.
What is false: It was in 1968.
This is the best of the moon phases to go star gazing.
What is when there is a new moon.
Why is the moon so hungry?
What is: Because it is only full once a month.
It is the speed that the earth rotates in 24 hours at the Equator.
What is 1, 000 miles per hour.
These two things are responsible for the craters on the moon.
What are asteroids and comets.
The amount of time it took for the man to reach the moon.
What is four days?
When the moon is "getting smaller" we use this term.
What is waning.
How does the man on the moon cut his hair?
What is: He eclipse it.
This is the speed the Earth orbits around the sun.
What is 66,700 miles per hour.
The moon is the _____________ largest natural satellite in our solar system.
What is the fifth largest.
This is the distance in miles from the earth to the moon.
What is 238,855 miles
This is the number of days it takes for the moon to go through a whole cycle.
What is 27 days.
When Oscar's cat Fluffy goes to the moon, this is the distance that is between them.
What is 238, 900 miles.
This is the time it takes for the moon to completely
What is 27 days.
It is the number of years ago when scientists believe that the moon was created.
What is 45 billion years ago
True or false: The earth has no atmosphere.
What is true
This intermediate Moon phase comes after New Moon and lasts until half of the Moon's visible surface is illuminated at First Quarter Moon.
What is the waxing crescent.
What did the cow say to the moon?
What is: Nothing. Cows can't talk