Moon Formation

Which feature may have formed by the cooling and shrinking of the moon?

• Highlands

• Rilles

• Basins

• Maria

Which two lunar features are related to each other as follows. One influenced the formation and resulting location of the other.

• Poles

• Craters

• Basins

• Maria

The theory of moon formation that says the Moon was somewhere in space, and was captured into orbit around Earth is the ...

• Net Theory

• Bell Theory

• Moon Capture Theory

• Accretion Theory

The theory that says early Earth spun so fast that it spun off a chunk that became the moon.

• Fission Theory

• Fusion Theory

• Nuclear Theory

• Chunk Theory

A large body crashed into the earth, causing debris that formed the moon.

• The comet theory

• The meteor theory

• The asteroid theory

• the giant impact hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Our moon was created by ______.

• Azgardians like Thor and Heimdahl

• little green men

• clumping of matter near the early Earth

• a collision between the early Earth and another protoplanet

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

The theory that says the moon is a sister world that formed in orbit around Earth at the same time as the Earth formed is called...

• The Accretion Theory

• The Big Bang Theory

• The Attrition Theory

• The Nebular Theory

What FORCE caused the cloud to flatten into a planetary disc?

• magnetism

• gravity

• adhesion

• surface tension

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The Giant Impact Theory states that the moon formed by the collision of earth with a smaller planet which caused the orbiting debris to clump together.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Which theory suggests that the Moon was formed from debris after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth?

• The Capture Theory

• The Fission Theory

• The Giant Impact Hypothesis

• The Co-formation Theory