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The cumulate rocks form much of the crust. The upper part of the crust probably averages about 88% plagioclase (near the lower limit of 90% defined for anorthosite): the lower part of the crust may contain a higher percent of ferromagnesian minerals such as the pyroxenes and olivine, but even that lower part probably averages about 78% plagioclase.[8] The underlying mantle is denser and is also olivine-rich.
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Which term do you use when you are seeing more and more of the lighted portion of the moon each night?
When you are seeing more of the lighted portion of the moon each night, the moon is waxing. When the lighted portion is diminishing, it is waning.
What determines the portion of the moon that you see at night?
what determines the portion of the moon that you see at night
What is after full moon?
Last quarter moon comes after the full moon
When the size of visible portion of the moon is decreasing the moon?
When the illuminated portion is decreasing from one night to the next, the moon is in its 'waning' phases.
What comes after the first quarter moon?
After the first quarter moon comes the waxing gibbous moon. The waxing gibbous moon appears as the illuminated portion of the moon grows larger each night until it reaches a full moon.
What portion of body is core?
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Which term do you use when you are seeing more and more of the lighted portion of the moon each night?
When you are seeing more of the lighted portion of the moon each night, the moon is waxing. When the lighted portion is diminishing, it is waning.
Why the moon changes through a cycle each month?
The moon does not change (much). What an observer on Earth sees changes as the Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth/Moon system orbits the Sun much more slowly is the illuminated portion of the moon growing (covering more and more of the visible portion of the Moon) and when the Moon is full, the Sun Earth and Moon are more or less in line (if they were exactly in line it would be a lunar eclipse - which does happen a few times each year). Then as the Moon continues to rotate around the Earth, night after night, less and less of the illuminated portion is visible to the observer on Earth.
What determines the portion of the moon that you see at night?
what determines the portion of the moon that you see at night
What is after full moon?
Last quarter moon comes after the full moon
What is it called when a moons illumination decreases each day?
The apparent size of the moon's illuminated portion is constantly shrinking during the two weeks after Full Moon, leading up to New Moon ... not only daily, but continuously, even hour by hour. This portion of the moon's cycle is called the "waning phases".
Is the core of the moon like that of earth?
The moon is believed to have a metallic core similar to that of Earth, but smaller in proportion to the moon than Earth's core is to Earth.
What is the interior makeup of the moon's core?
The interior makeup of the moon's core is: melted iron.
When the size of visible portion of the moon is decreasing the moon?
When the illuminated portion is decreasing from one night to the next, the moon is in its 'waning' phases.
What is waxing phases?
It's when the lit up portion of the body (usually referring to our moon) is getting larger, approaching full.
What comes after the first quarter moon?
After the first quarter moon comes the waxing gibbous moon. The waxing gibbous moon appears as the illuminated portion of the moon grows larger each night until it reaches a full moon.
What is the change called when the moon phases go from the full moon to the new moon?
A decrease in the illuminated portion of the Moon is called waning. When the illuminated portion is increasing, it is called waxing.
