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11 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 main types of landformes on the moon?
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Craters, Maria, & highlands
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what are the flat dark areas on the moon calles? What does the name mean and where did it come from?
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Maria, it is latin for 'seas'
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What are the light area on the moon?
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Lunar highlands
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What is a crater?
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roundish pits on the moon's surface
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How does Maria form? What rock is in the process?
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basalt rock cooled and formed Maria
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What is a ray crater?
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a new crater
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How are rilles connected to valleys?
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moon's valleys
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What connection do lunar highlands have to Earth's mountains?
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they are types of valleys and Earth has them too
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What feature on the moon is similarto Earth's volcanoes?
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non active volcanoes and mountains
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What do Earth and moon have in common?
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Thay both have the same traits of mountains, hills, and valleys. Both have ignues rock, a axis, orbit the sun, & extint volcanoes
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Whydid people on Earth the moon once had seas?
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becuase the dark spots looked like water
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