Earth and Moon two best friends by: Lilly and Hanna size • The moon is 27 percent the size of earth • Earths size is 12,742 km Landforms/craters • Craters hit the moon because the moon doesn’t have an atmosphere • Some of earths landforms are mountains,valleys,plains ,wetlands and drylands gravity • You would only experience 17% the force on the moon than on earth • There is 6 times the gravity on the Earth than on the moon Weather and atmosphere • The moon doesn’t have an atmosphere • It can dip down to -153 celsius during the night and during the day it can rise up to 103 celsius on the moon • But the Earth does if we didn’t have atmosphere we wouldn’t live Water • The moon only has a little bit of water • 70%of Earth is filled with water Weather and erosion • On Earth weather is caused when rock is warn down or dissolved into pieces from the rain or the wind • No weathering and erosion on the moon because there is no wind or running water Time to rotate on its axis • The moon rotates counter clockwise taking 27.5 days • It takes 24 hours for Earth to rotate What causes tides • The gravity force between the Earth and the moon Time to revolve/orbit once • It takes the moon about29.5 days to revolve around the Earth • It takes Earth 365 days to rotate around the sun What causes seasons • Since the Earth is tilted as it makes its journey around the sun it causes our seasons