The Moon

Bombardment by huge meteorites and asteroids created the dark areas or ___ that we see today.

• rilles

• maria

• craters

• crustal thickness

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Lava flows from the Moon's ___ filled in the lower-lying areas creating the lunar maria.

• mantle

• core

• outer core

• active volcanoes

The lunar highlands are made up of mostly ___ rock.

• aluminum (lighter) - rich

• impact ejecta

• iron (heavier) rich

• basaltic

The lunar lowlands (maria) are made up of mostly ___ rock.

• aluminum (lighter)-rich granitic

• iron (heavier)-rich basaltic

• shattered

• smooth but somewhere in between type

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The Moon most likely formed from an impact of a Mars-size object with early Earth.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Compositional differences between the Earth & Moon show that the

• Earth has less water at the poles.

• Moon is less dense due to a much smaller amount of iron.

• lunar rocks could not have come from the mantle.

• lunar orbit is not the same as its rotation.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Very large craters & impact basins on the Moon's surface apparently formed

• from more recent collisions from meteorites.

• long ago before their were large impactors.

• when massive volcanism happened.

• long ago (eons) when there were more large impactors.

The Earth's axis would wobble ___ if the Moon did not have a gravitational influence.

• predictably

• uncontrollably

• differently

• and turn upside-down

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What is meant by the Moon having a "synchronous orbit?"

• its orbit matches that of Earth going around the Sun

• both the Earth & Moon orbit each other

• daylight hours are the same on both the Earth & Moon

• the Moon's spin is equal to its revolution around the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

How does the Earth & Moon compare in size?

• they are about the same

• the Moon is a little smaller

• Earth is just a little larger

• the Moon is about 1/4 as large as the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1