Waxing or waning?
Moon knowledge
Name that moon
Moon knowledge extended
Very hard questions (can skip)
126
Is it waxing or waning
Waxing Gibbous
126
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
126
What is a moon with no light?
New moon
126
What does the moon rotate around?
It rotates around Earth.
126
Is the moon made of cheese?
(pretty easy)
No
200
Is a moon with the light on the right side waxing or waning?
Waxing
200
How many days does it take the moon to get through a full cycle?
29.5 days
200
What is a moon with a sliver of light on the right side?
Waxing crescent
200
Why does the moon produce light?
It reflects it from the sun.
200
Is the moon edible?
(pretty easy)
No
536
Is a moon with the light on the left side waxing or waning?
Waning
536
Who was the second person to walk on the moon?
Buzz Aldrin
536
What is a more than 50% lit moon with the light on the right side?
Waxing gibbous
536
How did the moon form?
(Its a theory)
(30 seconds for computers)
What is most widely accepted today is the giant-impact theory. It proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon.
536
How far away is the moon from the earth?
(computers for 10 seconds)
238,900 mi
742
Waxing or waning?
Waxing
742
Why does a lunar eclipse not happen every full moon?
Because the moon's orbit around Earth lies in a slightly different plane than Earth's orbit around the sun, perfect alignment for an eclipse doesn't occur at every full moon.
742
What do you call a half-lit moon with the light on the right side?
First-quarter moon
742
How old is the moon?
(10 seconds for computers)
4.53 billion years old
742
How did the moon get its name?
(10 seconds for computers)
mōna
1000
What moon is this?
(ignore the sliver of light)
New moon
1000
How long does it take the moon to make a full rotation around the earth?
27 days
1000
What moon is this?
(you can use your computers on this question but only for 1 minute)
Strawberry supermoon
1000
How big is the moon?
(10 seconds for computers)
1,079.6 mi
1000
What was the moon phase on march 18th 1987
(you have 15 seconds to use your computers on this)
Waning gibbous