Coronado Varsity Astronomy: The Moon And Its Phases
45 Questions
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Questions and Answers
- 1.A supermoon is most likely to occur during the apogee of a lunar orbit?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Because the Moon rotates once for each revolution around the Earth you never see the far side of the Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.A supermoon is most likely to occur during the perigee of the lunar cycle.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.It takes the Moon 27 days to go through a complete lunar cycle (new Moon to new Moon).
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.A solar eclipse is most likely to occur when the Sun is located between the Earth and Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.When the visible portion of the Moon is increasing, the Moon is waning.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.When the lighted portion of the Moon appears to get smaller it is waxing.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.From new moon to full moon phase you see an increasing amount of the lighted side of the Moon from the right.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.A micromoon is most likely to occur during the perigee of the lunar cycle.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.A lunar eclipse is most likely to occur when Earth is located between the Sun and the Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.When the Moon is ¼ of it’s orbit around the Earth it is a half Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.When the Moon is 3/4 of it’s orbit around the Earth it’s a half Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.When the Moon is halfway through its cycle it will appear as a full moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.On a clear night sky, day 29.5 of the lunar cycle you will see a full Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.The second full Moon of a month is called a Harvest Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Lunar eclipses last longer than solar eclipses because the Earth’s shadow is so much larger than the Moon.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Solar eclipses are shorter than lunar eclipse because the Moon’s shadow is so much larger than the shadow of Earth.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.The Earth was struck by a Mars sized planet by propenents of the Moon Fission Theory.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.The Moon stabilizes the rotation of the earth which is about 24 hours.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.The Mars sized object named Theia crashed into Earth forming the Moon was also called Ceres.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Earth's gravity pulled the Moon in when it passed close enough to Earth, describes the "Capture Theory"?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Lunar maria appear lighter in color and lower in elevation than the lunar highlands.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Lunar highlands-appear lighter in color and higher in elevation than the maria.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Earth's gravity is 1/6 of the Moon
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Large Moonquakes are caused by thermal changes on the Moon's surface
- A.
True
- B.
False
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