Moon Unit

What was the Apollo program's goal?

• To freeze dry ice cream

• To get to the moon

• To fly to Mars

• To start a colony in space

What is an astronaut?

• Space scientist

• An alien

• People who want to travel to space

• Men on Mars

How old is the moon

• She's a lady, so it's rude to ask

• 4.5 billion years old

• 1,000,000,000 years old

• 6,000 years old

What caused the craters on the moon?

• Rabbits

• Dogs digging holes

• Bombs

• Meteors crashing into it

Who was Neil Armstrong?

• The president of the USA

• The first man to go to space

• The first man to step on the moon

• The first sumo yokozuna

Which phase of the moon looks bigger, crescent or gibbous

• Crescent

• Gibbous

How many days does it take the moon to go around the earth and complete one cycle of lunar phases?

• 5 days

• 29 days

• 1 year

• 777 days

How many moon phases are there?

• 10

• 9

• 8

• 7

Why does the moon have phases?

• It changes shape

• It goes on a diet and loses weight

• It comes closer sometimes

• As the moon orbits, the earth blocks some (or even all) of the light from the sun, so the moon looks different to us

What is it called when I walk in a circle around the table? (Or when the earth circles around the sun?)

• A revolution

• Exercise

• Going around

• Whee!