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Lunar Quiz
Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz.
- Approximately what is the rotation period of the Moon?
- 1 year
- 6 months
- 1 month
- 1 day
- How was the Moon formed?
- Captured by Earth's gravitational field
- From a collision with a Mars sized object and Earth
- Simultaneously with Earth
- Fission of the Moon from Earth's crust through centrifugal force
- Scientists still do not know
- What time does the full Moon rise?
- Midnight
- Noon
- Sunset, approximately 6 PM
- Sunrise, approximately 6 AM
- Which side of the Moon has more craters?
- Towards the Earth
- Away from the Earth
- The side leading its orbit
- Impossible to tell due to erosion
- You see the Moon on the meridian at sunrise. What is the phase of the Moon?
- Waxing Gibbous
- Full
- First Quarter
- Third Quarter