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What fraction is the moon's gravity to the earth's gravity?
a) 1/2
b) 1/3
c) 1/4
d) 1/6

What is the moon's surface like?
a) It is wet, cold, and icy
b) It has no liquid water, no wind, no atmosphere, and extreme temperatures
c) It has rocks, dirt, wind, and water
d) It has no rocks, no water of any kind, and no dirt

What is the name of the side of the moon we can always see?
a) dark side
b) near side
c) crater side
d) far side

How many times does the moon rotate as it revolves around the earth once?
a) once
b) 29 1/2 times
c) twice
d) 365 1/2 times

If it weree not for these two factors, the earth would be pulled into the sun or be hurled throughout space in a straiht line.
a) weight and mass
b) seasons and moon phases
c) gravity and inertia
d) eclipses and tides

Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
a) Neil Armstrong
b) Edwin Buzz Aldrin
c) Michael Collins
d) Sally Ride

The winter solstice means
a) winter for both hemispheres
b) winter for the Northern Hemisphere and summer for the Southern Hemisphere
c) summer for both hemispheres
d) spring for the Northern Hemisphere and fall for the Southern Hemisphere

Equinoxes occur when
a) the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
b) neither hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
c) the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
d) the sun, the earth, and the moon are arranged in a straight line

The earth rotates on an axis of
a) once
b) 365 1/4
c) 23.5
d) 56.8

The mass of an object combined with its distand from another object affects its
a) mas
b) gravity
c) gravitational pull
d) weight

Have meteroids caused highlands to form on the surface of the moon
a) yes
b) no
c) maybe
d) I don't know

As the moon orbits Earth, we onl see its
a) sunlit side
b) dark side
c) far side
d) neap side

The moon appears to rise at
a) different times every day
b) different places
c) the same time every day
d) never

How many areas are there on Earth where high or low tides occur at the same time?
a) six
b) seven
c) two
d) one

What states that every object in the universe attracts every other object, depending on mass and distance?
a) mass
b) Newton's Law of Order
c) Law of Gravitational Pull
d) Law of Universal Gravitation

What is a periodic rising and falling of the surface level of ocean water?
a) high
b) moon light
c) tide
d) neap

What is a dark, flat area on the moon's surface, filled with hardened lava?
a) spring
b) mare
c) lunar
d) neap

What type of tide is a condition of the greatest range between low and high tides?
a) spring
b) neap
c) low
d) high

What type of tide is a condition of the lowest range between low and high tides?
a) spring
b) neap
c) low
d) high

What type of eclipse occurs when Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, causing Earth's shadow to block the sun's lifht from the moon?
a) solar
b) Earth
c) lunar
d) gibbous

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