Origin of the Moon Study Guide
PHYSICAL GEOLOGY 101

After the "Origin of the Moon" lecture and readings you should be able to answer and discuss the following questions.

What is a moon?

What is the Moon?

What is unusual about the Earth-Moon?

How are the tides on the Earth created?

Why is there a bulge in the ocean on the side away from the Moon?

What are the observations of the Moon that must be accounted for in any theory of the origin of the Moon?

What is the Co-Accretion Theory and what are its flaws?

What is the Capture Theory and what are its flaws?

What is the Fission Theory and what are its flaws?

What is the Impact Theory and what are its flaws?

Compare and contrast simple and complex impact craters and impact basins.

What types of celestial bodies can be involved in an impact?

Describe the sequence of events that occur during an impact?

What are lunar maria?

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