Why doesn't the earth's surface look nearly as "holey" as our moon?

Enjoy this question because it might actually fit this sub.

In older cartoons, the moon was sometimes depicted as being made out of cheese because of how it appears to have "holes" from far away. Even when looking at more modern pictures of our moon, it appears to be COVERED in crators. All across the surface there are circular marks from impacts, big and small, close together and sometimes far apart.

Now, I understand that the earth has an atmosphere, is covered in water, and has high tectonic plate activity. Maybe that's the entire answer of why our planet appears to have less impact crators than our moon?

Still, though. To my uneducated brain, it doesn't completely add up as to why our closest neighbor is so battered up while the earth's surface doesn't seem to have nearly as many visual evidences of impacts.

We know there have been and continue to be impacts. We also know that the moon "protects" us from some impacts. But the way the moon looks compared to our planet and even a lot of other planets/moons is vast and confusing to me.