Response to Text: The Moon

The Moon

Highlight the correct answer or type in the 

appropriate answer.

1) What is the size of the Moon compared to?

a. Half the size of Earth b. Half the size of Mars

c. Quarter the size of Earth d. Quarter the size of Mars

2) How is the Moon a natural satellite?

→ It is a celestial body that orbits a planet

3) True or False: It takes between 29.5 and 37.3 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth.

a. True b. False

4) Why do we think that the Moon changes shapes?

→  The Sun light’s up different types of the surface.

5) Which phase allows us to only see the unlit side of the Moon?

a. New Moon b. First Quarter

c. Waning Gibbous d. Dark Moon

6) True or False: The Gibbous Moon looks like a Full Moon but only three quarters of it?

a. True b. False

7) Describe what an eclipse is?

→  An eclipse occurs when one object in space blocks an observer from seeing another object in space.

8) What are the two different types of eclipse?

→  Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse

9) Why shouldn’t we look directly at a Solar Eclipse?

→ It can damage your eyes

10) A Lunar Eclipse is what colour?

→ Reddish

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Explanatory Writing - The Sun (W8, T2)

Explanatory Writing

 is a style of writing which asks you to explain 

WHAT & HOW…

• What something is

• What something does

• How something works

• How something happened

• How to do something

It is not about your opinion, or trying to persuade someone. 

It is about the FACTS and INFORMATION

In this case we are looking at THE SUN, and how it affects us here on Earth.

You will be writing 3 PEEL paragraphs, each with its own topic.

BEGIN YOUR WRITING IN THE TEMPLATE ON THE NEXT PAGE

What is the sun?

The sun is a big star which is located at the center of our solar system. It is a yellow dwarf star that gives different types of energy such as infra-red energy such as heat, ultraviolet light, radio waves and light . The Sun  is about  a hundred times as wide as the Earth.

How does the Sun’s energy affect life on Earth?

The Sun warms our sea, stir’s our atmosphere, generates our weather patterns, and gives energy  to growing green plants that provide the food and oxygen for life on Earth. We know the Sun through its heat and light, but other, less obvious aspects of the Sun affect Earth and society. What is the sun? The sun is a big star which is located at the center of our solar system. It is a yellow dwarf star that gives different types of energy such as infra-red energy such as heat, ultraviolet light, radio waves and light . The Sun  is about  a hundred times as wide as the Earth. How does the Sun’s energy affect life on Earth? The Sun warms our sea, stir’s our atmosphere, generates our weather patterns, and gives energy  to growing green plants that provide the food and oxygen for life on Earth. We know the Sun through its heat and light, but other, less obvious aspects of the Sun affect Earth and society. How does the orbit of the sun create night and day? The Earth is one of several planets that orbit the sun, and the moon orbits the Earth. The Earth orbits the sun once every 365 days and rotates about its axis once every 24 hours. Day and night are due to the Earth rotating on its axis, not its orbiting around the sun

 

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