1. Natural Sciences and Technology Grade 6
Term 4: Planet Earth and Beyond
The Solar System
(ppt 5)

2. Topic 1 The Solar System The Moon and the Earth
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3. Comparison between the Moon and the Earth: Size
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4. Comparison between the Moon and the Earth: DifferencesNO
EARTH
MOON 1
Bigger than the Moon.
Smaller than the Earth. 2
Water in the seas.
No water. 3
Has areas where green things grow.
None. 4
No craters can be seen.
Has craters. 5
Clouds.
No clouds.
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5. More facts about the Moon and the Earth
It has Highlands [some higher areas that are light coloured].
It has lower areas that are mountains.
The darker areas are flat plains.
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6. More facts about the Moon and the Earth
Flying asteroids that hit the Moon fast and hard, form craters [holes that have round shapes].
Rays [the blast results in dust and rocks which form spreading lines away from the Moon].
Larva [made of darker-coloured rock], erupts under the Moon’s crust and flows to the lower areas.
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