What causes the surface of the moon to look the way it does

It depends. If you're talking about from down here on Earth's point of view, then the moon looks how it does because of sunlight reflecting off of its surface. If you're talking about the Moon's point of view, then it is because the moon has impact craters and dead volcanoes all over it.

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So the moon doesn't give off light itself, the moonlight we see is actually the suns reflected off the lunar surface.

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The sun lights up different parts of the earth making it seem like the moon is changing shapes.

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