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Cubangbang's 8th Ch. 7 The Moon Stack #169115

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Genesis 1:16, what is the moon called?   The lesser light to ruler the night.  
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The diameter of the moon   3476 kilometers (2160 miles)  
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The mass of the moon   1.2% that the earth's mass  
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Why does a 108 lb person only weigh 18 lb on the moon?   The moon's gravity is only about 1/6 as great as the earth's surface gravity.  
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The minimum speed an object must have to free itself from gravitational pull   escape velocity  
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Earth's escape velocity   11.2 kilometers (25,000 miles)  
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Moon's escape velocity   2.4 kilometers (5300 miles)  
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A push or pull on an object   Force  
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An object is defined as the amount of matter in an object   Mass  
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Increase in speed as the object falls   Acceleration due to gravity  
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The line dividing the lighted side of the moon from the dark side   Terminator  
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A star sailor   Astronaut  
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Any of the bright streaks on the moon's surface radiating from some of the moon's creaters   Rays  
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A dark, flat lowland region on the moon's surface   Mare  
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Long, narrow, snaking valleys especially evident on the moon's surface   Rills  
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What is the average distance from the center of the moon to the center of the earth?   About 384,400 kilometers (238,900 miles)  
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The point nearest the earth in the orbit of the moon or of an earth-orbiting satellite   Perigee  
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The point in the orbit of the planet or other object orbiting the sun where it is farthest from the sun   Apogee  
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The moon moves _____ per day around the earth.   13.2 degrees  
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When the moon is in the same direction as the sun and above it or below it in the sky is called?   New Moon  
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The increasing phase of the moon, during the week following a new moon, when its illuminated portion appears as a thin, gradually thickening crescent.   Waxing crescent  
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A pointed end of a crescent moon   Cusps  
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Sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon and back again is called?   Earthshine  
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90 degrees to the east from the sun in the sky is called?   First quarter  
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The phase "as it increases between first quarter and full moon, is called?   Waxing gibbous  
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Exactly 180 degrees away from the sun in the sky   Full moon  
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The full moon that occurs mearest to the time of the autumnal equinox (September 21-23) in the Northern Hemisphere or the vernal equinox (March 21-23) in the Southern Hemispere   Harvest moon  
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The full moon occurring one month after the harvest moon or the fields are clear of vegetation and hunters can more easily spot game animals at this time   Hunter's moon  
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The decreasing phase of the moon, following a full moon, when the illuminated disk gradually diminishes to the third quarter   Waning gibbous  
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The whole western half of the moon is in darkness, and the terminator forms a straight line as it did at first quarter, also called last quarter.   Third quarter  
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What is another name for third quater?   Last quarter  
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The phrase "between third quarter and new moon, is called?   Waning crescent  
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An eclipse that occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, blocking some or all of the sun's light to the earth at a given location   Solar eclipse  
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An event where the direct (solar) or reflected (lunar) light from the sun as viewed by an observer at a given location is completely cut off by another astronomical body   Total eclipse  
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An eclipse in which the face of the sun is never fully covered, as observed at a particular location   Partial eclipse  
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An eclipse of the sun in which a narrow ring (annulus) of the sun's disk shows around the moon because the moon is too far from the earth to cover the sun's disk completely   Annular eclipse  
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Bright pinpoints of light that appear briefly during a total solar eclipse as sunlight shines through valleys around the moon's edge   Baily's beads  
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During a total solar eclipse, the effect produced by a single Baily's bead flash occurring along the thin remaining solar crescent at the limb of the moon   Diamond ring effect  
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The darkening of the full moon when it passes into the earth's shadow   Lunar eclipse  
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The naturalistic theory that the moon was once a planet in its own orbit around the sun but that the earth somehow deflected it into an orbit around the earth   Capture Theory  
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A naturalistic theory of the origin of the moon suggesting that somehow the moon split away from the earth when the earth was still molten   Fission Theory  
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The uniformitarian theory that all celestial objects, but especially those of the solar system, were formed by the gravitational accumulation of space dust   Accretion Theory  
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A naturalistic theory for the origin of the moon that suggests the matter in the moon was once a part of the earth, but a collision with another celestial object ejected the matter coalesced and went into orbit around the earth as the moon   Impact Theory  
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