Transcript The Solar System

The Solar System
by Ruth Ann Hicks
CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
St. Michael’s College
Summer 2006
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THE SUN
• The Sun is the center of our solar system.
• The Sun is just a medium-sized star.
• The Sun is made of hot gases that give off
energy by heat and light.
• If the Sun were hollow, it would take a
million Earths to fill it up.
• The Earth is 93 billion miles from the Sun.
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The Planets
• A planet is a ball of rock or gas, or both, that
travels around a star.
• There are nine well-known planets in our
Solar System.
• The planets orbit the sun.
• The order of the planets from the Sun is:
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Mercury
• Mercury is closest to the Sun, so it is
very hot.
• Mercury has almost no atmosphere.
• Mercury orbits the Sun in 88 days.
• Mercury rotates one time in 59 days.
• Mercury has many craters.
• Mercury has no moons.
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Venus
• Venus is hot with a temperature of
750°F.
• Venus is covered with thick clouds.
• Venus takes 224.7 days to revolve
around the sun.
• Venus takes 243 to rotate on its axis.
• Venus is smaller than the Earth.
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Earth
Earth has
one moon.
• Earth has an
atmosphere with
oxygen so that we
can breathe.
• Earth is molten rock
and 75% water.
• Earth revolves around the
Sun in 365.4 days.
• Earth rotates 24 hours to
make a day.
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Mars
• Mars is known as the red planet.
• Mars is dry, and has extreme
temperatures.
• Mars has two moons.
• Mars has a thin atmosphere.
• Mars orbits the Sun in 687 days.
• Mars has mountains and river beds.
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Jupiter
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Jupiter is a giant planet.
Jupiter is 1000 times bigger than Earth.
Jupiter rotates in 10 hours.
Jupiter takes 12 years (4348 days) to
revolve around the Sun.
• Jupiter has a storm, The Great Red
Spot.
• Jupiter has over 27 moons.
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Saturn
• Saturn is the second largest
planet.
• Saturn has beautiful rings made
of icy rocks.
• Saturn rotates in 10 hours 39.4
minutes.
• Saturn orbits the Sun in 29.5
years (1032.5 days).
• Saturn has at least 30 moons.
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Uranus
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Uranus is a cold planet.
Uranus is far from the Sun.
Uranus rotates in 16.3 hours.
Uranus orbits the Sun in 84 years
(30,660 days).
• Uranus rotates backwards
(retrograde).
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Neptune
• Neptune is icy cold.
• Neptune’s light is weak.
• Neptune is 275,000,000 miles away from
the sun.
• Neptune rotates in 16.11 hours.
• Neptune orbits the sun in 165 years.
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Pluto
• Pluto is the smallest of the
known planets.
• Pluto is the farthest away from
the Sun.
• Pluto is icy cold.
• Pluto and Neptune’s orbits
intersect.
• Pluto is 3660 million miles from
the Sun.
• Pluto orbits the Sun in 248 years.
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The Family of the Sun
(To the tune of Farmer in the Dell —
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the tune.)
1.The family of the Sun,
The family of the Sun,
Nine planets all in all
In the family of the Sun.
4. We love the Earth, our home,
Its oceans and its trees,
We eat its food, we breath its air,
So no pollution, please.
2.Mercury is hot,
And Mercury is small.
Mercury has no atmosphere at all.
It’s just a rocky ball.
5. Mars is very red.
It’s also dry and cold.
Someday you might visit Mars,
If you are really bold.
3. Venus has thick clouds
That hide what is below.
The air is foul,
the ground is hot
It rotates very slow.
6. Jupiter is big.
We’ve studied it a lot.
We found that it has 27 moons
And a big red spot.
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The family of the sun (cont.)
7. Saturn has great rings.
We wondered what they were
Now we know they’re icy rocks
Which we saw as a blur.
9. Pluto’s last in line,
It’s farthest from the sun.
It’s small and cold and icy, too.
To land there won’t be fun.
8. Uranus is faint
And Neptune’s light is weak,
We’re so glad the Voyager
Gave us all a peek.
10. The family of the Sun,
The family of the Sun,
Nine planets all in all,
In the family of the Sun.
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The Solar System
• The Sun
• The Planets
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Uranus
Pluto
For more Information:
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system
NASA
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/index.cfm
Trivia
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/SciTech/OurSolar-System-5967.html
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