1. Moon Notes

2. Formation Theories of our Moon

3. Fender Bender – Earth and another large object collided causing a chunk of material to fly off and form our moon

4. Captive – our moon was traveling past Earth when it was captured by Earth’s gravity

6. Sister – our moon and Earth formed at the same time in close proximity to each other

8. Daughter – our Earth was spinning so fast when it first formed that it slung off some material which formed the moon

10. Maria – dark level patches on the moon once thought to be seas, caused by lava flow

11. Highlands – light patches on the moon which indicate mountainous regions

12. Terminator – the line separating day from night on any satellite including the moon

13. Craters – impact basins from meteorite crashes

14. Impact Crater on Earth

15. Ejecta rays – white lines of debris coming out of impact craters on the moon

16. Phases of the Moon – the moon undergoes 7 phases throughout the lunar month (every 29 days)

17. New Moon

18. Waxing Crescent

19. First Quarter

20. Waxing Gibbous

21. Full Moon

22. Waning Gibbous

23. Third Quarter

24. Waning Crescent

25. Back to New Moon

26. Lunar Eclipse – when the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon
Lunar Eclipse – occurs when the earth’s shadow falls on the moon when the Earth comes between the moon and the Sun

27. Solar Eclipse – when the moon comes between the Earth and the Sun causing the sunlight to be blocked from Earth