The Moon Study Vocab 1-c

orbital radius

• the average distance between the Earth and the Sun

• the average distance between two spatial bodies

• the average distance between a spatial body and the spatial body it travels around

• pi times r squared

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

regolith

• the large boulders on the Moon

• the mountains that are formed from asteroids impacting the Moon

• the main character from "Megolith, the Monster of Death"

• the pulverized surface material on the Moon; also known as lunar soil

orbit

• the path that a spatial body follows as it travels around another body in space

• a type of candy bar

• the large collection of asteroids just past the last planet in our solar system

• the space rock that is closest to the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

mare

• the white surfaces on the Moon

• a type of goat

• the dark surface of cooled magma in a flooded crater

• the dark-colored, rocky material that covers the surface of the Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

ejecta

• the material found on the top of mountain peaks in the Himalayas

• the material displaced from the land when a crater is formed

• sand found on the bottom of the ocean

• a land feature that is tall and flat on top

Moon rays

• the white lines that extend in all directions from some craters

• the dark squiggly lines on the Moon

• the lines that extend from the Sun in pictures

• the light that reaches the Earth as reflected from the Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

lunar

• anything having to do with the Moon

• anything having to do with space

• anything having to do with the Earth

• anything having to do with the Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

impact

• volcanic activity

• when asteroids miss hitting the Moon

• the crash between one object upon another

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

flooded crater

• a river bed on the Moon

• a floating type of raft

• a large piece of land that contains lakes filled with water

• a large indentation in the land that filled with magma from beneath the suface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

highlands

• the place where the Highlander came from in Australia

• light colored areas of the Moon with lots of rough mountains and craters

• Death Valley

• the highest level of water in the ocean