Download MAP SCALING - PLANETS 4 144,000,000 486,000,000 13.5 77.5

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MAP SCALING - PLANETS
Our solar system is huge. If we shrunk it down to fit on this piece
of paper it would kind of look like this. It is so big that only one
small line on this page would equal 36 million miles in the real solar
system. Use the scale to determine the approximate distance each
planet is from the sun. Estimate to the nearest 0.5 or 1/2 of a line.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Number of Lines
Miles
SCALE
Mercury
1
36,000,000
1 line = 36,000,000 miles
Venus
2
72,000,000
1/2 line = 18,000,000 miles
Earth
2.5
90,000,000
The planets are not to scale.
Mars
4
144,000,000
Jupiter
13.5
486,000,000
Saturn
24.5
882,000,000
Uranus
49.5
1,782,000,000
Neptune
77.5
2,790,000,000
Pluto
102
3,672,000,000
Mars
Sun
Did you know that
Pluto is called a dwarf
planet? There are many
other dwarf planets
in your solar system.
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
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