The Moon
The moon is the natural satellite of the earth.
What is the moon?
Spring, summer, autumn, or winter.
What are the four seasons of the year?
Is all the waters on the earth's surface, such as
lakes and seas.
What is the hydrosphere?
Is the layer of gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Is the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Astronauts went to the moon for
the first time in 1969.
When did astronauts first travel to the moon?
The star around which the earth orbits.
Solid, liquid and gas.
What are the three states/matters of water?
Because it protects Earth like a big blanket of insulation.
Why is the atmosphere important?
Is made of nickel and iron.
What is the core made of?
Water was discovered on the moon in 2009.
When was water discovered on the moon?
The planets that are closest to the Sun which
are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Which are the inner planets?
In latin, it means water.
What is the meaning of hydro?
The atmosphere absorbs the heat from the Sun and keeps the heat inside the atmosphere helping the Earth to stay warm.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
4000 degrees in the outer core and 5000 degrees in the inner core.
What is the temperature in the core?
It takes the moon about 28 days to go around the earth.
How long does it take the moon to go around the earth?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These four gas giants have rings.
Which are the outer planets?
Liquid water evaporates, it falls
as rain, it drains into rivers and flows into the sea.
What is the water cycle?
Because it helps to protect the earth from the Sun's
radiation.
Why is the ozone layer important?
Due to the immense pressure.
Why is the inner core solid?
Because the light from the sun bounces off it and lights up the side of the moon.
Why can we see the moon?
Because the Earth is closer to the Sun.
Why is summer warmer than winter?
H2O (two
hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom).
What is water in its purest form?
The atmosphere is made up of mostly nitrogen(78%) and oxygen (21%).
What are the main 2 gases in the atmosphere? / What is the atmosphere made of?
Is very important to earth as it creates something
called a magnetic field.
Why is the outer core so important?