Question

The fact that many people, when looking at the moon that orbits Earth, see a face (commonly called "the man in the moon") can be explained by the phenomenon of

Answer 1

This is known as Pareidolia. Pareidolia is a phenomenon where people assign human qualities to objects that are not related to humans with the most widely known examples being of seeing human faces in objects like the man in the moon or the face on mars. Other well known examples would be seeing shapes in clouds, seeing religious images on food and so forth.