Moon Unit Assessment

Terra

When comparing the human body to a spacecraft, the nerves would most closely match

The moon is about 1/6th the size of Earth in terms of diameter. This means that the gravity on the Moon is

We only see one side of the moon because the moon does not rotate.

The moon only reflects light from the sun; it doesn't create it's own light.

Using resources found on the moon, we can make oxygen

Some of the rocks found on the moon contain minerals exactly like ones we have here on Earth.

bonus question: who was the president who challenged the American people to set a goal to land man on the moon

We know the moon had a molten core because we see evidence of flooded craters from huge meteorite impacts.

Waxing means that we can see more of the moon.

Maria

Some sites are better to land at on the moon than others because they have minerals like iron and nickel which are great elements for building steel structures.

Craters can be found on both the Maria and the Terra of the moon.

The purpose of pre-manned missions was to take pictures, make maps and plot landing sites.

"Maria" is the word used to describe the mountainous, highlands of the moon.

Pre-manned space missions could only hold 1 astronaut in the capsule at a time.

Two types of pre-manned lunar missions were

The lunar missions of the 1960's and 70's were called Mercury, Venus, and Apollo

Complex craters

As long as someone says the moon is in a gibbous phase, it is easy to tell exactly which phase comes next.

The moon goes through a total of 6 phases

The best time to go for a stroll at night and see the Maria on the face of the moon is when the moon is at the phase called: new moon

The next phase after a new moon is a waning crescent

There were 5 original astronauts in the early space program.

Before Galileo used his newly engineered telescope to look at our Moon, people on Earth thought that the Moon's surface was flat and smooth but it was Galileo that first saw and mapped geographical features like mountains and vallleys similar to Earth's.

The current scientific theory on how we happened to have a moon is that