Transcript Planets on Parade - Mr. Munoz Tech Center

Planets on
Parade
Our Solar System
Presented by
Lisa Haws
How many planets
are in our solar
system?
•Mercury
•Venus
•Earth
•Mars
•Jupiter
•Saturn
•Uranus
•Neptune
•Pluto
The Sun
• Biggest star in the
Solar System
• Gives heat and light
to every planet in our
solar system
• If you could drive to
the sun in your family
car, it would take 150
years to get there!
Mercury
•Closest to the sun
•After Pluto, the
smallest planet
•One day on
Mercury is 59
Earth days!
Venus
• Second planet
from the sun
• Called the
Morning Star or
the Evening Star
• One of Earth’s
neighbors
Earth
•Third planet
from the sun
•One moon
•Only planet
where we
know there is
life!
Mars
•The Red Planet
•Named after
the Roman
god of war
•Very cold!
Jupiter
•Largest planet in
our solar system
•Made of whirling
gases
•Home of the
Great Red Spot
Saturn
•Beautiful rings
made of ice,
rock and dust
•22 moons
•Made of gas;
so light it
floats!
Uranus
•Tipped on its
side
•15 moons and
10 rings
•Smaller than
Saturn and
Jupiter
Neptune
•A stormy,
windy planet
•Faint rings and
eight moons
•Very cloudy
Pluto
•Smallest planet
•Hard, rocky
and icy
•Trades places
with Neptune
Asteroid Belt
• Between Mars
and Jupiter
• Chunks of rocks
circling the sun
• Separates rocky
planets from gas
planets
What would you like to do now?
1. Take the quiz.
2. Watch the presentation again.
3. Quit this presentation
1. Why is the sun important?
a.
b.
c.
d.
It is the biggest planet in our solar system.
It is the biggest star in our solar system.
It gives heat and light to every planet in
our solar system.
It makes our solar system pretty.
That is correct!
Good job!
2. How many moons does the
Earth have?
a.
b.
c.
d.
It has two moons.
It has no moons.
It has one moon.
It has three moons.
That is correct!
Good job!
3. Which planet is the largest
one in our Solar System?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The sun.
Mars.
Jupiter.
Mercury.
That is correct!
Good job!
That is not correct.
Try again…
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