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Internet Assignment: Earth'S Moon

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Internet Assignment: Earth’s Moon

Scroll down to Chapter 25 “Earth’s Moon”

Click on “Observe Images Illustrating the Impact Theory of the Moon’s Formation”

1. How did Earth’s moon form according to a recent, widely accepted theory?

Run the animation ….

2. What happened to the material that was blasted into orbit?

Back click and click on “Examine the phases of the moon from Earth and Space”

3. How much of the moon is always lit by the sun?

4. Why does the moon’s appearance change throughout the month?

Click on “Show Oblique View” and run the animation …. Notice how the view of the moon from Earth

changes as the moon orbits the Earth …. Stop the animation.

Manually move the moon until the name, New Moon, appears on the screen.

5. Manually move the moon to the all the positions listed below. Accurately draw the lit and shaded

portions of the moon in this position above its phase name:

New Moon

Waxing Crescent

First Quarter

Waxing Gibbous

Internet Assignment: Earth'S Moon