vocab set 8

a large dark area of lunar basalt

• crater

• mare

• regolith

• anorthosite

a bowl-shaped depression that forms on the surface of an object when a falling body object strikes it

• mare

• crater

• regolith

• anorthosite

a smaller natural body that orbits a planet

• mare

• crater

• moon

• regolith

a layer of crushed rock and dust on the moon's surface

• mare

• crater

• regolith

• anorthosite

a rock composing the light, rough highlands areas of the moon's surface

 

                            

• anorthosite

• barycenter

• perigee

• solar eclipse

the balance point of the Earth-moon system

• barycenter

• perigee

• apogee

• solar eclipse

the point at which a satellite is nearest to Earth in its orbit around Earth

• barycenter

• perigee

• solar eclipse

• apogee

an event in which the moon's shadow falls on Earth when the moon passes between the Earth and sun

• lunar eclipse

• solar eclipse

• apogee

• perigee

the point at which a satellite is farthest from Earth in its orbit around Earth

• solar eclipse

• apogee

• perigee

• lunar eclipse

the passing of the moon through Earth's shadow at full moon

• lunar eclipse

• apogee

• perigee

• solar eclipse