Environmental Science

Understanding the
Earth, Sun and Moon
MPS Department | FEU Institute of Technology
 OBJECTIVES

 Explain the relationship among the Earth, the Sun and the Moon.
 CONTENTS

 Sun: the closest star to Earth

 Earth: our home planet
 Moon: our satellite
Environment

•All the things around us with which we interact:

•Living things
•Animals, plants, forests, fungi, etc.
•Nonliving things
•Continents, oceans, clouds, soil, rocks
•Our built environment
•Buildings, human-created living centers
•Social relationships and institutions
The Sun

• The sun is the

closest star to Earth.
• It radiates light and
heat, or solar energy,
which makes it possible
for life to exist on Earth.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/power-sun/
The Sun

By Kelvinsong - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23371669

The Sun
Images of the Sun captured by NASA

By NASA, broadcasted by BBC News - https://youtu.be/3_ijz9kFy6s

The Earth
• Our home planet Earth is
a rocky, terrestrial planet.
• It has a solid and active
surface with mountains,
valleys, canyons, plains
and so much more.
• Water covers 70% of
Earth's surface.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-earth/en/
The Earth

• Earth is the third planet from the Sun in our solar

system. That means Venus and Mars are Earth’s
neighboring planets.
• Earth has just one Moon. It is the only planet to have
just one moon.
• Almost all materials on Earth are constantly being
recycled. The three most common cycles are the
water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the rock cycle.
The Earth
Our Home Planet by National Geographic

By National Geographic - https://youtu.be/HCDVN7DCzYE

The Moon
Scientists believe that the Moon formed early in the solar
system’s history after Earth and an object about the size of
Mars smashed into each other. The impact sent chunks of
Earth and the impactor into space that were pulled together
by gravity, creating the Moon.

Today, we know that the Moon is covered by craters as well

as dust and debris from comets, asteroids and meteoroid
impacts. We know that the Moon has almost no atmosphere
and only about one-sixth of Earth’s gravity. We even know
that there is quite a bit of frozen water tucked away in craters
near the Moon's poles.
The Moon

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/video/moon-101/
The Moon

https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html
The Moon
Evolution of the Moon by NASA

By NASA, Goddard Space Flight - https://youtu.be/UIKmSQqp8wY

References
1. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/power-
sun/
2. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/video/moon-
101/
3. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-earth/en/
4. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-the-
moon/en/
5. https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-
formation-composition-and-orbit.html
6. https://www.bbc.com/news
7. https://youtu.be/3_ijz9kFy6s
References
8. https://youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM
9. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
10. https://youtu.be/HCDVN7DCzYE
11. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-
bin/details.cgi?aid=10930
12. https://youtu.be/UIKmSQqp8wY