Meet a Scientist Who Studies the Early Solar System

What does Kaveh Pahlevan study?

• Dinosaurs

• The early solar system

• Weather patterns

• Oceans

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Where does Pahlevan work?

• A space shuttle

• A laboratory in the U.S.

• An observatory in France

• A school

What helped scientists collect clues about the Moon?

• Sand samples

• Moon rocks returned by astronauts

• Meteorites from Mars

• Fossils

What course inspired Pahlevan’s career in science?

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Astronomy

• Physics

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Pahlevan studies how the Moon looks today, not how it formed.

• True

• False

Scientists believe the Moon formed when another planet collided with Earth.

• True

• False

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Pahlevan finds excitement in being the first to discover something new.

• True

• False

Pahlevan uses ____ _____ to study how the Moon formed.

As a child, he kept a _______ box filled with items from nature.

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Pahlevan works at an ____________ in southern France.