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Features of the Moon
Motions of the Moon
Gravity and Winds
Rocks
Earth
100
Maria, Craters, and highlands are this type of feature
What is a lunar feature ?
100
When the moon passes between the sun and Earth, this type of eclipse occurs
What is a solar eclipse ?
100
Gravitational strength between two objects depends on its _____________ and the distance between them
What is mass ?
100
Rocks are classified into these 3 major groups
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks ?
100
Earth moves through space in these 2 ways
What are rotation and revolution ?
200
Without this the moon is dry
What is atmosphere ?
200
This type of eclipse, the Earth blocks the sunlight from reaching the moon
What is a lunar eclipse ?
200
Isaac Newton concluded that these two forces held objects in orbit
What are gravity and inertia ?
200
Geologists observe and classify rocks into by mineral composition, color, and _____________.
What is texture ?
200
The Earth's interior is divided into these 4 layers
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core ?
300
The moon was created when a large one of these collided with the Earth
What is meteoroid ?
300
These are caused by differences in how much of the moons gravity pulls on the parts of the Earth
What are tides ?
300
His "law of universal gravitation" states that every object in the universe attracts every other object
Who is Isaac Newton ?
300
This group of rocks is produced by these 5 processes : weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation
What is sedimentary ?
300
What are the three types of plate boundaries
What convergent, divergent, and transform?
400
The moon is 1/4 the size of this
What is the Earth ?
400
The phase of the moon you see depends on how much of the sunlit side of the moon faces this
What is the Earth ?
400
These two types of winds are created by the unequal heating of the Earth's surface
What are local and global winds ?
400
Heat and pressure, foliated or non foliated are words associated with this rock group
What is metamorphic rock?
400
This theory explains the formation, movement, and subduction of the Earth's plates
What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics?
500
On the moon, there are drastic variations in this
What is temperature ?
500
Phases of the moon, eclipses, and tides are caused by the changing positions of these three things
What are the moon, Earth, and sun ?
500
The trade winds, the polar easterlies, and the prevailing westerlies are three of the major global__________.
What are wind belts ?
500
This rock group is used by many people for buildings and tools
What is igneous ?
500
Wegner theorized that all of these were once joined together as a single land mass
What are continents ?