Activity 6. Think It Through
ANSWER THIS
Directions: Read the article and formulate five thought-provoking questions based
on the topic. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Moons
Earth is the only planet that has a single moon. Our Moon is the brightest and
most familiar object in the night sky. In many ways, the Moon is responsible for
making Earth such a great home. It stabilires our planet's wobble, which has
made the climate less variable over thousands of years.
Earth sometimes temporarily hosts orbiting asteroids or large rocks. They are
typically trapped by Earth's gravity for a few months or years before returning to
an orbit around the Sun. Some asteroids will be in a long "dance with Earth as
both orbit the Sun.
Some moons are bits of rock that were captured by a planet's gravity, but our
Moon is likely the result of a collision billions of years ago. When Earth was a
young planet, a large chunk of rock smashed into it, displacing a portion of
Earth's interior. The resulting chunks clumped together and formed our Moon.
With a radius of 1,080 miles (1,738 kilometers), the Moon is the fifth largest
moon in our solar system (after Ganymede, Titan, Callisto and lo).
The Moon is farther away from Earth than most people realize. The Moon is an
average of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. That means 30 Earth-sized
planets could fit in between Earth and the Moon.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/in dept/ size and distane otp
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