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I was the first man to set foot on
the moon, I am _______________.
The word lunar comes from the Latin
word for ________________.
I remained in orbit around the moon
in the Apollo command Module
Columbia, I am _____________.
Armstrong and ____________left
the Module Eagle to explore the
moon.
Scientists learned more about the
moon from the ________missions
that ended in 1972 than they had
learned in many years.
The moon is about ______ the
diameter of Earth.
The moon’s gravity is ______ than
that of the Earths.
Objects weigh __________on the Earth
than they do on the Moon
Objects weigh __________on the moon
than they do on Earth.
If you weighed 120 lbs on Earth
then you’d weigh _____lbs on the
Moon.
If you weighed 240 lbs on Earth then
you’d weigh _____lbs on the Moon.
If something weighed 80 lbs on the
Moon
then it would weigh _____lbs on the
Earth.
If something weighed 25 lbs on the
Moon
then it would weigh _____lbs on the
Earth.
How did scientists begin to estimate
the average distance to the moon?
What purpose did leaving the mirror on
the moon serve?
A beam of light was bounced from the Earth off
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measured the amount of time it took the beam
to bounce back to the Earth. Then using the
speed of light, they could then calculate the
distance to the moon accurately.
Astronauts also brought back samples
of _________________.
The oldest moon rocks are about
_______billion years old.
The moon does not have any
____________, therefore there is
no weather on the moon.
The days can be warm on the moon
(100 degrees C) and the nights very
cold (-175 degrees C)!
In 1609, ____________ became the
first person to look at the moon
through a telescope. He saw light
and dark areas on the moon!
The light areas Galilei saw are
mountain ranges called
____________.
The dark areas Galilei saw are broad,
smooth, lowland plains called
Maria is the Latin word for
______.
One of the largest craters on the
moon is called _______________.
_______________was also a famous
Polish scientist/astronomer who
first stated the theory that Earth
and other planets revolve around
the sun.
Most of the Moon’s craters are
located in the ___________.
****The Moon takes _______to
revolve around the Earth.
This means that a day on the moon is just
as long as a year on the moon!
Evidence that the moon once had
active volcanoes may be the long
valleys that cross the Moon’s
surface also known as _________.
Another explanation that the rilles may
be cracks are they are caused by_____
•The
The moon revolves around the
Earth in a (n)
___________orbit.
At _________________, the point
of the moon’s orbit is closest to the
Earth. (About 350,000 kilometers)
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At _________________, the point
of the moon’s orbit is farthest
from the Earth. (About 400,000
kilometers away)
***The Moon takes _______to rotate
once on its axis.
Almost a month!
1) The moon formed millions or billions of
kilometers away and was later captured by
Earth’s gravity.
The moon formed from the same cloud of gas and
dust that the Sun, Earth and the rest of our Solar
System formed from. **The moon rocks lend
support to this theory. The moon rocks are the
same age as Earth and made of the same material
as Earth.
3) A giant asteroid (the size of Mars) hit the Earth
and tore a chunk out of Earth’s surface. The
Chunk is now our moon (stayed in orbit due to
Earth’s Gravity.) **The hole that was left on
Earth is now the Pacific Ocean. **This is also
supported by moon rocks.
The moon rocks are the same age as Earth and
made of the same material as the Earth.