Phases
What is waxing?
Growing larger
What is a Satellite?
Any object that travels around another object in space.
What is an eclipse?
When an object passes into the shadow of another object.
What is mass?
Measurement of the amount of matter an object has.
What is mare?
Large, flat land area, or plain, on the surface of the moon.
What is waning?
Shrinking
What is an orbit?
The path the moon takes around the earth.
Why do we always see the same side of the moon?
Because it takes about the same amount of time for the moon to rotate as it does to revolve.
What is the shape of the moon?
The moon is a sphere.
What is a Rille?
A deep valley or trench that runs across the lunar surface.
What is crescent?
a narrow sliver of the moon's circle shape.
What is a revolution?
Complete trip of the moon around the earth.
During a lunar eclipse where is the moon?
behind the earth
What does it mean lunar?
Related to the moon.
What is a crater?
Hollowed out places.
What is gibbous?
Shape of the moon when more than half but not the whole is lit.
What is a rotation?
A complete spin of the moon on its axis.
During a solar eclipse, where is the moon?
Between the earth and the sun.
What is the size of the moon?
The moon's diameter is a little bit more that 1/4 the length of the earth's diameter.
What are rays?
Light colored streaks form from lighter colored material that is under the surface of the moon.
Name the phases starting with the full moon.
That's a lot of phases to write!!!
What is an ellipse?
A slightly flattened circle.
Say Monday in Spanish
Lunes
How long does it takes for the moon to complete a revolution around the earth?
29 days
Who said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?
Neal Armstrong