Edexcel GCSE Astronomy Topic 9 Exploring the Moon overview quiz quiz

It is much larger

It is exactly the same size

It is much smaller

The Moon has no core

It has many more dark maria than the near side does

It is always in complete and permanent darkness

It is noticeably smaller than the near side of the Moon

It has far fewer maria and is more heavily cratered

Synchronous rotation keeps it permanently turned away

It is permanently too dark to ever be seen from the Earth

It is always blocked from view by the Earth's clouds

It is always on the same side of the Moon as the Sun

By using powerful telescopes here on the Earth

By spacecraft sent around the Moon

By patiently waiting for libration to reveal it

By bouncing radar beams from the ground

To go fast enough to actually be able to see the distant Moon

To avoid burning up in the upper layers of the atmosphere

To escape the Earth's gravity, which only rockets can achieve

To stay in a low circular orbit around the Earth

The Moon was always a part of the Earth and simply broke away from it

The Moon is a captured asteroid that drifted in from deep space

The Moon formed directly out of leftover material from the Sun

A Mars-sized body hit the early Earth, and the debris formed the Moon

The Capture Theory

The Big Bang theory

Kepler's law

The Steady State theory

The Capture Theory of the Moon

The Giant Impact Hypothesis

The Co-accretion Theory

The Steady State theory of the Moon

The far side is actually far brighter than the near side of the Moon

There is no real far side of the Moon at all, only a near side

The far side gets just as much sunlight; it is hidden, not unlit

The far side of the Moon truly never receives any sunlight at all

Libration does not actually exist, so we see only one fixed face

The far side of the Moon is simply far too far away to ever see

Libration only works for a short while at the time of full Moon

Libration reveals only about 59 percent of the surface in total