Moon Content Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
How long does it take the moon to travel once cycle around the earth? | About 27 days (27 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes) |
What are the Moon phases? | New, Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent |
Explain new moon | When the moon is between the earth and the sun. The sun is illuminating the side of the moon that we cannot see. |
Explain full moon | When the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the earth. The sun illuminates the entire half of the moon that we see |
True or False: The sun is always shinning on half of the moon? | True |
Can we live on the moon? | No, there is no Oxygen |
Does the moon have any moons or rings? If so name them. | No |
Anorthosite | Rock of aluminum and silicates found on the moon. |
Asteroid | Small, rocky world. Most asteroids are between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. |
Breccia | Rock made from pieces of rocks formed earlier. |
Carbonaceous Chondrite | Stony meteorite containing chondrules and volatiles. |
Chondrite | A stony meteorite containing chondrules. |
Chondrule | Round, glassy part of meteorite made from silicates. |
Ejecta | Pulverized rock scattered by impacts on an object's surface. |
Mare | Lava flows on the surface of the moon. Plural, maria. |
Meteor | Small rocks or sand making a bright trail through the sky as it burns in the atmosphere. |
Meteorite | A meteor that has landed on the Earth. |
Rays | Ejecta from impacts that spreads out away from a crater. |
Rilles | Channels in the lunar surface. |
Volatiles | Carbon compounds, frozen gas and other materials that when heated vaporize. |
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