Moon & Earth

Size

• The Moon is 3,476 km in diameter• The Earth is 12,742 km in diameter

Landforms

• The Moon is dotted with many craters and mountains.

• The Earth has mountains, valleys , hills and more.

Gravity

• The Moon’s gravity is 6x less than Earth’s gravity.

• The Earth’s gravity is 6x more than the Moon’s gravity.

Weather & Atmosphere

• The Moon has no atmosphere.• The Earth’s has 5 layers of the

atmosphere including the (from top to bottom) Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere.

Water

• The moon has very little water on or in it’s surface.

• The Earth is around 70% of water out of 100%.

Weathering & Erosion

• The Moon has no weathering or Erosion because the Moon has no atmosphere.

• The Earth has an atmosphere causing the planet to have weathering & erosion.

Time To Rotate On It’s Axis

• It takes the Moon 27 days to rotate on it’s axis.

• It takes the Earth 24 hours to rotate on it’s axis.

Time to orbit once

• The Moon takes 29 and one half days. to orbit.

• The Earth takes 1 year to orbit.

Effects By The Moon And Earth

• The Moon effects the earth’s high & low tides because of it’s gravity.

• The Earth’s tilts on it’s axis causing the seasons because the Sun shines on specific places at different times during the Earth’s orbit.