The Sun-Earth-Moon System Test

The Moon revolves around the ________________.

• Moon

• Sun

• Earth

• None of these

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The time for one rotation of the Moon is 27.3 days. What is the revolution?

• 24 hours

• 24 days

• 27.3 days

• 365 days

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During ________ phases, more of the Moon is visible each night.

• waxing

• waning

• new

• full

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The phase of the moon that immediately precedes the new Moon is the ______________.

• full moon

• first quarter

• second quarter

• third quarter

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Which phase of the Moon is shown in this picture of what the sky looks like at midnight?

• new moon

• first quarter

• full moon

• third quarter

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Which phase of the Moon is shown in this picture of what the sky looks like at midnight?

• new moon

• first quarter

• full moon

• third quarter

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Which phase of the Moon is shown if this is a picture of what the sky looks like at midnight?

• new moon

• first quarter

• full moon

• third quarter

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What formed the craters on the Moon?

• volcanoes

• lava flowing up through the Moon's crust

• impacts from objects in space

• tectonic plate movements

The impacts that formed the moon's craters also blasted out the material that formed______________.

• mountains

• maria

• highlands

• rays

Dark-colored, relatively flat regions of the Moon's surface that were formed when interior lava filled large basins are called_____________.

• craters

• volcanoes

• maria

• sedimentary rocks