"Sea" the Moon Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sea of Rain

The Sea of Rain is the biggest "sea" on the moon. It can be seen in the upper left hand corner of the moon and is directly attached to the Bay of Rainbows which sits on its top left hand side.

Answer: Sea of Serenity

The Sea of Serenity is the third largest "sea" on the moon. It's next door to the Sea of Rain and the two are separated by a collection of smaller lakes and two mountain ranges, including the Apennine Mountains.

Answer: Sea of Crises

The Sea of Crises is a large sea on the right hand side of the Moon. It is entirely surrounded by mountains and craters but its inside surface is relatively smooth compared to the other seas.

Answer: Lake of Dreams

Not far from the Lake of Death and just above the Sea of Serenity is the home of the Lake of Dreams. It's also surrounded by craters and mountain ranges, including a large crater called Posidonius and the Taurus Mountains.

Answer: Seething Bay

The Seething Bay, or Bay of Billows, is directly below the Sea of Rainbows. The two are separated from each other by the Apennine Mountain range. After the Sea of Rainbows, the Seething Bay is the closest body of 'water' to the famous crater Copernicus.

Answer: Sea of Fertility

The Sea of Fertility is another giant sea on the Moon. Slightly longer but not as wide as the other major three, the Sea of Fertlity is probably one of the most noticeable 'grey' spots on the moon when seeing it from Earth. It flows from just above to well below the Moon's equator and is surrounded by several other seas including the Sea of Clouds and the Sea of Tranquility.

Answer: Lake of Death

The Lake of Death is a small lake high up in the northern hemisphere located at the end of the Sea of Cold. It has a medium sized crater above it called Burg.

Answer: Storms

The Ocean of Storms can be found on the far western side of the Moon. It is the only named ocean on the moon, all other bodies are bays, lakes, marshes and seas. "The craters on the moon were caused by asteroids that slammed into it between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago." (Fact is from: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_moon_facts-1.html)

Answer: Bay of Rainbows

The Bay of Rainbows sits on top of the Sea of Rain and if you picture it as Mickey Mouse, the Sea of Rain is the head and the Bay of Rainbows is the left ear. The Bay of Rainbows is surrounded by a mountain range called Montes Jura.

Answer: Sea of Clouds

The Sea of Clouds is the largest sea in the Moon's southern hemisphere. Unlike the other large seas that are roughly circular in shape, the Sea of Clouds is shaped very irregularly, jutting out at odd angles. It's surrounded by fairly large craters.

Answer: Marsh of Diseases

The Marsh of Diseases is the southern most Marsh on the moon. It sits between and below the Sea of Moisture and the Sea of Clouds in the Moon's southern hemisphere.

Answer: Bay of Dew

The Bay of Dew is a long and thin stretch of land that sits directly above the Bay of Rainbows, nearing the Moon's Northern Highlands.

Answer: Sea of Moisture

The Sea of Moisture is directly to the left of the Sea of Clouds. Above and to the right of it is Mare Cognitum, and below and to the right lies the Marsh of Disease. "Every year, the moon steals some of the Earth's rotational energy in order to push itself around 3.8 centimetres higher in its orbit. Currently the moon is about 384,000 miles away from the Earth but researchers believe that when it was first formed, the moon was only about 14,000 miles away." (Fact is from: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_moon_facts-1.html)

Answer: Sea of Nectar

The Sea of Nectar is the second largest sea in the southern hemisphere. It lies next to the Sea of Fertility. The two are separated by the Pyrenaeus Mountains on the eastern edge of the Sea of Nectar as well as craters on the western edge of the Sea of Fertility. "It took Apollo 11, 66 hours to make the trip from the Earth to the moon, which means that it would take a person approximately 10 years to get there on foot." (Fact is from: http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/MoonMania/facts.htm)

Answer: Marsh of Sleep

The Marsh of Sleep is shaped sort of like a kidney bean. It sits, almost lost, between several giant seas; Crises, Tranquility and Serenity.

Answer: Sea of Cold

The Sea of Cold continues from the Bay of Dew. Like the Bay of Dew, it's also long and thin but stretches over a much larger amount of land, bending around several craters so that it's shaped like a stretched and inverted letter 'S'.

Answer: Mare Undarum

The Sea of Waves continues from the Foaming Sea. Together the two resemble a candy cane and are two of the smallest bodies of 'water' on the moon. "A "Lunar Halo" or what we see as a 'ring around the moon' is caused by refracted light through the ice crystals in cirrus clouds.

A ring around the moon usually means that there's a good chance of precipitation in about 24 hours." (Fact is from: http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/lunar-2003/eclipse6.html)

Answer: Foaming Sea

The Foaming Sea is a small and straight sea that sits below the Sea of Crises and next to the Sea of Fertility.

Answer: Marsh of Decay

The Marsh of Decay is a small lake found in between the Sea of Rainbows and the Sea of Serenity. It is surrounded by other small bays and marshes, like the Sinus Lunicus and Palus Nebularum, as well as several mountain ranges.

Answer: Sea of Vapours

The Sea of Vapours is below and in between the Sea of Rain and the Sea of Serenity, separated from the Sea of Rain by the Apennine Mountains and from the Sea of Serenity by the Haemus Mountains. To the left of the Sea of Vapours is the Seething Bay and they are separated from each other by a patch of raised land. As you can see, the moon has many lakes, bays, marshes and oceans, but it also has many mountain ranges, basins, lowlands, highlands and valleys that weren't covered in this quiz. The most common features, however, are obviously the craters, but, did you know that a crater within a crater is called a 'craterlet'?