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Moon
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Our Moon

Moon
Moon


Our Moon
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Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 3 to 5
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   2.85

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    actually, planet, satellite, boiling, rocks, moonlight, nights, several, neighbor, sunrise, giant, sunset, month, mirror, sunlight, heat
     content words:    Neil Armstrong

Other Languages
     Spanish: Nuestra Luna


Our Moon
By Cindy Grigg
  

1     A moon is a satellite that goes around a planet. Some planets, like Mercury, do not have a moon. Some planets, like Jupiter, have many moons. Earth has one moon.
 
2     The moon is our nearest neighbor in space. It is smaller than the Earth. It is much smaller than the sun. It is much closer to the Earth than the sun is. The moon is about 239,000 miles away from Earth. The sun is 93 million miles away!
 
3     The moon goes around, or orbits, the Earth one time a month (about every 29 days). The moon looks different to us as it orbits the Earth. It seems to change its shape on different nights. This is called the moon's phases. The moon's phase depends on its position and the position of the sun. The moon goes through eight different phases each month.

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Moon
             Moon


Solar System
             Solar System


Science
             Science


    Careers in Science  
 
    Caring for Earth  
 
    Clouds  
 
    Dinosaurs  
 
    Earth's Land  
 
    Earth  
 
    Earthquakes  
 
    Electricity  
 
    Energy  
 
    Erosion  
 
    Food Pyramid  
 
    Food Webs and Food Chain  
 
    Forces and Motion  
 
    Fossils  
 
    Health and Nutrition  
 
    How Things Work  
 
    Landforms  
 
    Life Science  
 
    Light  
 
    Magnets  
 
    Matter  
 
 
    Moon  
 
    Natural Disasters  
 
    Photosynthesis  
 
    Plant and Animal Cells  
 
    Plants  
 
    Rocks and Minerals  
 
    Science Process Skills  
 
    Scientific Notation  
 
    Seasons  
 
    Simple Machines  
 
    Soil  
 
    Solar System  
 
    Sound  
 
    Space and Stars  
 
    Sun  
 
    Tsunami  
 
    Volcanoes  
 
    Water Cycle  
 
    Water  
 
    Weather  
 



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