The moon’s diameter is about ______________ of the earth’s diameter.

The moon does not make its own _________________.

The moon’s gravity is about ________________ of the earth’s gravity.

Because the moon does not have an atmosphere like the earth’s, the moon has extreme _______________ changes.

Any object that travels around another object in space is called a ____________________.

A hollowed-out place on the moon’s surface is called a ____________________.

A deep valley on the moon’s surface is called a ____________________.

A large, flat land area on the moon’s surface is called a ____________________.

A change in gravity does not affect an object’s mass but does affect its ____________________.

Each complete spin of the moon on its axis is called a revolution.

The shape of the moon’s orbit is an ellipse.

It takes twenty-nine and a half days for the moon to go through all its phases.

The path the moon takes around the earth is called its rotation.

The gravity of the earth keeps the moon in its orbit.

The part of the near side of the moon that is lit by the sun as seen from Earth is called a ____________________.

When the lit part of the moon is growing larger, we say the moon is ____________________.

The narrow lit sliver of the moon’s circle shape is called a ____________________.

The shape of the moon when it is more than half but not completely full is called ____________________.

When the lit part of the moon is getting smaller, we say the moon is ____________________.

When an object passes into the shadow of another object, the event is called ____________________.

The moon passes between the sun and the earth during a ____________________ eclipse.

The moon passes through the earth’s shadow during a ____________________ eclipse.

One kind of science uses measurements and observations to describe the ____________________.

A second kind of science uses observations in the present to decide what happened in the ____________________.

One choice in finding the answer to the origin of the moon is to trust scientists’ ____________________.

A second choice in finding the answer to the origin of the moon is to trust God—the only ____________________.