Moon

We watched an awesome movie about the moon today!

This is what we learned...

• Moon is shaped like a sphere, just like the Earth. 
• It is 1/4 the size of Earth. (Like a tennis ball next to a basketball) Because of this, it has less mass. 
• Telescope make things that are far away look like they're close up.
• The moon does not have water on it. 
• The moon has lowlands and highlands. 
• The moon has no atmosphere so it has extreme temperatures. 
• The moon has craters from large objects in space hitting the moon
• Comets are large balls of ice and dust that usually have a tail
• Asteroids are made of rock and metal. 
• Meteoroids are like small asteroids. 
• The force of gravity depends on the size of the object so the moon goes around the earth because the earth is bigger.
• The moon is closer to the earth than to other planets, which is why the moon goes around the earth. 
• The moons gravity is 1/6 of gravity on earth. 
• Rotate means spin. The moon rotates (spins)
• Earth moves around the sun. 
• Phases of the moon are all the times that moon looks different in a month.
• We see only the part that has sunlight reflecting on the moon. 
• Waxing is when the lighted side is getting bigger 
• Waning is when the lighted side is getting smaller.
• A while sky of moons would still only be 1/5 as bright as moon
• The moon and the earth play tug-of-war over the ocean waves. 

Here's a great link for looking at what the moon looks like in different phases.