Key Terms

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highlands
the lighter, heavily cratered regions of the Moon, which are generally several kilometers higher than the maria

mare
(plural: maria) Latin for “sea;” the name applied to the dark, relatively smooth features that cover 17% of the Moon’s surface

Please take the time to check out the source for this material from Openstax if you plan to use this in your lesson plan!: https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/9-key-terms