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Phases
Eclipses
Tides
Formation
Exploration
100
Waxing
What is when the moon appears to be getting larger each night?
100
The light from this is blocked during a Lunar eclipse.
What is the Moon?
100
These tides are the Highest and the lowest. And occur twice a month.
What are Spring tides?
100
In this theory the Moon was flying past Earth.
What is Capture Theory.
100
July 1969 he was the first man to walk on the Moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
200
When we see what looks like half a moon
What is 1st and 3rd quarter
200
When the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
Tides happen this often every day.
What is 2 high and 2 low per day?
200
These are three things that can affect a craters size.
What is the size of the asteroid, the angle that it hits or the material the surface is made of?
200
The manned missions to the moon.
What are the Apollo missions
300
when we see the moon getting smaller each night.
What is waning?
300
Lunar Eclipses occur during this phase
What is full
300
Neap tides occur during these phases.
What are 1st and 3rd quarters?
300
Scientists theorize that asteroids impacted the Moons surface and molten material came through the cracks to create these.
What is the Mares
300
Rocks mostly.
What is what the astronauts brought back from the Moon?
400
The New Moon
What is the phase of the moon when the moon is between the Earth and the Sun?
400
The darkest part of the shadow produced during aneclipse
What is the Umbra?
400
This is about how many hours between high tides.
What is about 12 hours.
400
This is the most widely accepted theory of how the Moon was formed.
What is the Big Impact or Collision theory?
400
President Kennedy said it was about this far to the Moon
What is 240,000 miles
500
This phase occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon.
What is the Full Moon
500
This is why there fewer Solar eclipses
What is the Moon is smaller than the Earth so it has a smaller shadow?
500
This is why tide prediction tables can get really crazy for some places.
What is geography affects the tides?
500
Because of this, the Moon has many craters and it's surface has hardly changed for millions of years.
What is the Moon has no atmosphere ?
500
This is what scientists believe is has happened to the interior of the Moon.
What is it has cooled down?