Question | Answer |
Genesis 1:16, what is the moon called? | The lesser light to ruler the night. |
The diameter of the moon | 3476 kilometers (2160 miles) |
The mass of the moon | 1.2% that the earth's mass |
Why does a 108 lb person only weigh 18 lb on the moon? | The moon's gravity is only about 1/6 as great as the earth's surface gravity. |
The minimum speed an object must have to free itself from gravitational pull | escape velocity |
Earth's escape velocity | 11.2 kilometers (25,000 miles) |
Moon's escape velocity | 2.4 kilometers (5300 miles) |
A push or pull on an object | Force |
An object is defined as the amount of matter in an object | Mass |
Increase in speed as the object falls | Acceleration due to gravity |
The line dividing the lighted side of the moon from the dark side | Terminator |
A star sailor | Astronaut |
Any of the bright streaks on the moon's surface radiating from some of the moon's creaters | Rays |
A dark, flat lowland region on the moon's surface | Mare |
Long, narrow, snaking valleys especially evident on the moon's surface | Rills |
What is the average distance from the center of the moon to the center of the earth? | About 384,400 kilometers (238,900 miles) |
The point nearest the earth in the orbit of the moon or of an earth-orbiting satellite | Perigee |
The point in the orbit of the planet or other object orbiting the sun where it is farthest from the sun | Apogee |
The moon moves _____ per day around the earth. | 13.2 degrees |
When the moon is in the same direction as the sun and above it or below it in the sky is called? | New Moon |
The increasing phase of the moon, during the week following a new moon, when its illuminated portion appears as a thin, gradually thickening crescent. | Waxing crescent |
A pointed end of a crescent moon | Cusps |
Sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon and back again is called? | Earthshine |
90 degrees to the east from the sun in the sky is called? | First quarter |
The phase "as it increases between first quarter and full moon, is called? | Waxing gibbous |
Exactly 180 degrees away from the sun in the sky | Full moon |
The full moon that occurs mearest to the time of the autumnal equinox (September 21-23) in the Northern Hemisphere or the vernal equinox (March 21-23) in the Southern Hemispere | Harvest moon |
The full moon occurring one month after the harvest moon or the fields are clear of vegetation and hunters can more easily spot game animals at this time | Hunter's moon |
The decreasing phase of the moon, following a full moon, when the illuminated disk gradually diminishes to the third quarter | Waning gibbous |
The whole western half of the moon is in darkness, and the terminator forms a straight line as it did at first quarter, also called last quarter. | Third quarter |
What is another name for third quater? | Last quarter |
The phrase "between third quarter and new moon, is called? | Waning crescent |
An eclipse that occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, blocking some or all of the sun's light to the earth at a given location | Solar eclipse |
An event where the direct (solar) or reflected (lunar) light from the sun as viewed by an observer at a given location is completely cut off by another astronomical body | Total eclipse |
An eclipse in which the face of the sun is never fully covered, as observed at a particular location | Partial eclipse |
An eclipse of the sun in which a narrow ring (annulus) of the sun's disk shows around the moon because the moon is too far from the earth to cover the sun's disk completely | Annular eclipse |
Bright pinpoints of light that appear briefly during a total solar eclipse as sunlight shines through valleys around the moon's edge | Baily's beads |
During a total solar eclipse, the effect produced by a single Baily's bead flash occurring along the thin remaining solar crescent at the limb of the moon | Diamond ring effect |
The darkening of the full moon when it passes into the earth's shadow | Lunar eclipse |
The naturalistic theory that the moon was once a planet in its own orbit around the sun but that the earth somehow deflected it into an orbit around the earth | Capture Theory |
A naturalistic theory of the origin of the moon suggesting that somehow the moon split away from the earth when the earth was still molten | Fission Theory |
The uniformitarian theory that all celestial objects, but especially those of the solar system, were formed by the gravitational accumulation of space dust | Accretion Theory |
A naturalistic theory for the origin of the moon that suggests the matter in the moon was once a part of the earth, but a collision with another celestial object ejected the matter coalesced and went into orbit around the earth as the moon | Impact Theory |