SCIENCE Flashcards
Why does the moon have craters
The moon has craters because of meteors and astroids hitting it over time
Does the earth have any craters on it
our atmosphere burns up most meteoroids before they reach the surface.So only little rocks hit it over time
What happens in 1609
Galileo Galilei used a telescope to observe the moon.
What happened in 1850
Astronomers took the first photographs of features of the moon.
What happened in 1959
Luna 2 (USSR) became the first space probe to reach the moon
What happened in 1964
Space probe Ranger 7 (USA) took the first close-up pictures of the moon.
What happened in 1966
Luna 9 (USSR) became the first space probe to make a soft landing on the moon
What happened in 1969
Apollo 11 (USA) carried three astronauts to and from the moon
What happened in 1969–1972
Apollo missions 12 and 14–17 (USA) successfully reached the moon
What happened in 2008
Chandrayaan-1 (India) discovered evidence of water and a large cave beneath the surface of the moon
What happened in 2013
Chang’e 3 (China) landed with a six-wheeled lunar rover, called Yutu,
Explain why both the time and position of sunrise and sunset are not the same every day.
The inclination of the Earth’s rotation axis
why is the South Pole is in darkness during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter.
Its because of the rotational axe of the earth relative to the sun.
What is a lunar moon
A month between a successive new moons
How does a quarter moon occur
A quarter moon occurs when the sun is parsley covered shading the moon
Why is the phase in which half the moon is visible called a quarter moon
Because only one side of the moon is shaded because half of it is covered by the sun
Sometimes the moon is visible during the day.
(a)What phases of the moon would you be most likely to see during the day?
(A) all of them would be visible
Sometimes the moon is visible during the day.
(b)Would it be possible to see a full moon during daylight hours? Explain your answer.
(B) No because the earth is covering half of it
During which phase of the moon is it:
(a)between the sun and the Earth
(A) a new moon
During which phase of the moon is it:
(b)on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun?
(B) It would be a full moon
