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Moon Shadows and Craters

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Moon Shadows and Craters

Moon surface with craters and shadows

🌙 Part 1: Understanding Moon Shadows

1. What creates shadows on the Moon's surface?

The Earth blocking light

The Sun's light hitting uneven surfaces

Clouds covering the Moon

The Moon spinning very fast

2. When light shines on a crater, where do you see the shadow?

On the side facing the light

On the side away from the light

All around the crater

Only at the bottom of the crater

3. Which Moon features can we see better because of shadows? (Tick all that apply)

Craters

Mountains

Flat areas

Valleys

4. Fill in the blanks using the word bank below:

Word Bank: light source, crater, shadow, surface

When the Sun acts as a _____________, it shines on the Moon's uneven _____________. A _____________ is a round hole that creates a _____________ when light hits it.

🔦 Part 2: Crater Investigation

5. Draw what you observed when you shone the torch on your flour crater. Label the light source, crater, and shadow.
6. Describe what happened to the shadows when you moved the torch to different positions:
7. Explain why shadows help us see the Moon's features better:

When light shines on the Moon, shadows show us _________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Without shadows, the Moon's surface would look ____________________________

8. Complete this sentence: "Shadows on the Moon are different from shadows on Earth because..."

🚀 Part 3: Extension Challenge

9. Advanced Task: If you made craters of different sizes, describe how their shadows compared:
10. Design an experiment: How could you test what happens to crater shadows at different times of the Moon's "day"?

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