SCIENCE REPORT

The effects of the moon in our planet

BACKGROUND/INTRODUCTION: Date: 15th May 2022

In the earliest days of our planet, 4 500 billion years ago, we
hadn't a moon. The early Earth was being assaulted by rocks
and comets. One planet the size of Mars collided with Earth, DONE BY:
changing its internal composition. It was this change that
allowed life on Earth. The liquid rock launched into orbit Madalena Rocha Alves
formed our moon. This mass of rock exerts a gravitational Simões Gonçalves
force that forms a bulge of water in the oceans, the tides. And Nº21
as the moon orbits the Earth it drags this bulge around the
10ºA
globe, forming high and low tides.

QUESTION/PROBLEM:
HYPOTHESIS:
If the moon were in a different
1º - What if the moon was
position, how it would afect the life
closer?
on Eath? How different would our
2º - What if the moon was
world be? Do we really need the
farther away?
moon?
3º - What if there was no moon?

CHECKING THE HIPOTHESIS: KEY WORDS:

1º - If the moon was only a little closer, the tides would be bigger, but
nothing too different. Now, if the moon was 20 times closer than it is today, - Moon;
besides appearing 400x bigger it would influence the tides so badly that
- Gravitational
coastal cities would be submerged during the night when high tides are
force;
formed. In the morning, the moon disappears from the sky, and the water
- Earth;
retrieves.
- Tides;
2º - If the moon was an extra 10% away from Earth the days would get
bigger because the spin of the Earth would slow down due to the absence of
the moon's gravity. The days/nights (dependent on what part of the planet)
would have around 20 hours and the spin of the Earth would be so slow that
the planet would lose control and wouldn't have a defined orbit. With that,
the tilt of Earth would change and we wouldn't have seasons anymore. The
parts of the Earth would be in extreme seasons or you're living in an arctic
winter or an extremely hot summer. 3 months per year the sun is directly
pointed to the poles and a large amount of water submerges the coastal
cities due to the melt of the poles' ice.
3º - If the moon wasn't there, that would mean the rotation of our planet
itself wouldn't exactly exist, and with that, no seasons and consequentially
no photosynthesis, which would mean that the producers, which are the
bottom of the food chain wouldn't be able to transform inorganic matter in
organic one, which would mean that all the animals, including us, wouldn't
have food, and that would eventually lead to death, or even more probably,
we would even have the chance to live.
CONCLUSION:

With all in consideration, my

answer is yes, we need the
moon. We couldn't live without
it. The moon is far more
important and far more useful
than we ever realized. It's been
part of us, of the history of our
planet, it's been shaping and
changing the course of life on
Earth.
Without it, it wouldn't exist
seasons, and with that, the
photosynthesis couldn't be
done, consequently, that would
mean no life here on Earth.