Lunar surface

What does the word "lunar" mean?

• Related to the Moon
• Related to the Sun
• Related to the Earth
• Related to eclipses

From Earth, why do we always see the same side of the Moon?

• Moon doesn't rotate
• Earth's rotation is faster than Moon's
• Moon's rotation is same speed as its revolution
• Moon's rotation is faster than Earth's

Roughly once a month, during the Full Moon, why do we not always see a lunar eclipse?

• Earth's tilted axis
• Earth's tilted orbit
• Moon's tilted orbit
• Moon's tilted axis

How would you classify this lunar rock?

• Anorthosite
• Basalt
• Impact Breccia

What type of rock is found on the maria?

• Obsidian
• Basalt
• Sandstone
• Granite

Densely pitted, light-colored areas on the moon are called ____________.

• Craters
• Maria
• Highlands
• Crescents

The highest mountain on the moon is only 1km less in height than Mt. Everest. What region of the moon can mountains be found?

• Craters
• Maria
• Highlands
• All over

True or false: There can be craters within craters on the moon.

• True
• False

______________ are regions of dark, smooth, ancient beds of basaltic lava.

• Highlands
• Maria
• Craters
• Meteorites

How did the lunar mare (maria) form?

• Asteroids punctured the lunar surface, causing magma to bleed out
• Asteroids punctured the lunar surface, causing rock to break apart
• They were ancient oceans
• They were ancient beds of ice