The MOON / Earth

The ___________ of the moon is about 1/4 as long as the earth's.

diameter

The shape of the moon's orbit is an e_________.

elipse

Fill in the Blanks. Any object that travels around another object in space is called a s_____________.

satellite

BE ABLE TO NAME THE PHASES OF THE MOON!

1) NEW Moon 2) WANING crescent 3) Third Quarter (3rd quarter) 4) WANING GIBBOUS 5) FULL moon 6) WAXING GIBBOUS 7) First Quarter (1st quarter)

A change in gravity does NOT affect an objects m_____ but DOES AFFECT the objects w______.

mass weight

Some of the moon's features are maria, m____________s, rills and craters.

mountains

Both the r_________ and the revolution of the moon take about the amount of time.

rotation

What is one false theory about how the moon began?

some possible answers could be: 1) The moon broke away from the earth. 2)The moon formed from a cloud of dust and gas. 3) The moon formed after another planet hit the earth 4)The earth's gravity pulled the moon into its orbit.

The moon has extreme __________ changes between the side that is face the sun and the side that is not.

temperature

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. a rotation B. a revolution C. an ellipse _____ Each complete SPIN of the moon ON IT'S AXIS is called _________.

A. a rotation

Complete the matching section. _______hollowed-out places A. craters B. maria C.rills

A. craters

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. waxing B. new C. waning ______ When the LIT PART of the moon is GROWING LARGER, we say the moon is ___________.

A. waxing

True or False. If the sentence is FALSE- put a line through the WRONG part. And WRITE IN THE CORRECT WORD OR WORDS. "The moon does not have any light of its own".

TRUE. (don't scratch through any words).

True or False. If the sentence is FALSE- put a line through the WRONG part. And WRITE IN THE CORRECT WORD OR WORDS. "The moon's GRAVITY is about 1/6 (one sixth) of the earth's gravity.

TRUE. (don't scratch through any words).

It takes _____ /2 days for the moon to go through all its phases.

29 1/2

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. a rotation B. a revolution C. an ellipse _____ Each COMPLETE TRIP of the moon AROUND THE EARTH is called a r__________.

B. A REVOLUTION

Complete the matching section. _______ large, flat land areas on the moon A. craters B. maria C. rills

B. maria (large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They look like oceans (mar) on the moon to long ago astronomers)

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. full B. waning C. waxing ______When the lit part of the moon is getting smaller, we say the moon is _______

B. waning

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. phase B. rotation C. orbit ______ THE PATH the moon takes AROUND THE EARTH is called its _________.

C. orbit

Write the letter of the correct answer. A. ellipses B. crescents C. phases _____ The different SHAPES of the LIT PART of the moon are called __________.

C. phases

Complete the matching section. ______deep valleys on the moon's surface A. craters B. maria C.rills

C. rills (cracks on surface)

Is the beginning of the moon a matter of faith or science? Why?

FAITH It cannot be observed or measure no one but GOD was there.

True or False. If the sentence is FALSE- put a line through the WRONG part. And WRITE IN THE CORRECT WORD OR WORDS. "The moon is the earth's manmade satellite.

FALSE part is "man-made". Scratch it out and put the correct word "natural" in the answer blank.

True or False. If the sentence is FALSE- put a line through the WRONG part. And WRITE IN THE CORRECT WORD OR WORDS. "The moon is larger than the earth".

FALSE. scratch out "larger" and put the correct word SMALLER in the answer blank.

How did the moon come into being?

God created it!

Why do we always see the same side of the moon?

It takes about the same amount of time for the moon to rotate and to revolve.

How is science different from faith?

Science deals only with things that can be observed or measured. Faith is a belief in something (someONE) that cannot be seen or measured.

What keeps the moon in it's orbit?

The gravity of the earth!

Which has more craters--the moon or the earth? Why?

The moon. The moon does not have an atmosphere that protects it, so meteorites can easily hit the moon and cause craters.

True or False. If the sentence is FALSE- put a line through the WRONG part. And WRITE IN THE CORRECT WORD OR WORDS. " The moon is a sphere."

True