Download Solar System - United Elementary School

By: Joy Zarlinga
• Solar system- Is a sun and everything
within reach of it’s gravity.
• Sun- A star. Giant ball of hot gas. Produces
heat, light, and other kinds of energy.
• Asteroid- Is a mini planet (the largest
would stretch from Washington to
Kentucky)
• Asteroid belt- A ring of asteroids, most
asteroids are in a belt.
As you
know
planets
moons and
the sun
rotate on
an axis
some like
Jupiter
spin much
faster than
others.
Definitions
• Comets- Balls of ice, dust, and gas just a few
miles across.
• Meteor- Is a asteroid plunged into the earth’s
atmosphere.
• Solar flares- Sudden blasts of burning gas.
Going millions of miles into space releasing a
powerful burst of energy.
• Photosphere- Surface of sun glows bright white
because of heat underneath it.
• Chromosphere-Is like the sun’s atmosphere.
Definitions
The sun’s yellow right, not really. The colors of
stars are red, white, and blue, hey stars are
patriotic, cooler stars are red, hotter stars,
counting the sun, are white and the hottest
stars are blue.
•
Corona- (Or crown) is the sun’s upper atmosphere.
Only visible during an eclipse.
• Sunspots- Dark blotches on the sun’s surface.
• Radiative Zone- Gamma rays bouncing of each other
like pinballs making the radiation less dangerous.
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We are standing on Earth’s outer crust
and only 25 miles below you is molten hot rock.
If you picture a basketball as the Earth
the earth’s crust would be as thin as a hair. And
mighty Mount Everest would be to small to see.
The sun is at the center of the
solar system.
Although scientists debated that
for years. At first a second century
Egyptian claimed the sun moon and
planets evolved around the Earth. Not
until the 16th century they proved
him wrong.
Twelve humans have set foot
on the moon. They were all
Apollo astronauts.
They all walked between
1969 and 1972. No one has
landed since.
Only 12!!!
Mars
• After Earth most likely to support life
• Sunny Day 72F. (on the equator)
• At night goes down to -95F (the poles
are even colder.
It’s icecaps are why Mars is most like
Earth.
Venus
• Venus is very hot.
• Lead, tin, and zinc would easily melt.
• Mercury the metal would boil.
• The rocky crust is mushy like a chocolate
bar.
How like Earth: About the same size of
Earth, spinning ball of rock.
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Mercury
• Closest to the sun (not the hottest)
• Screaming hot 800F
• Dark side a fright 300F
• Makes it one of the colder planets
• Little atmosphere letting heat escape.
Like Earth because a spinning ball of
rock.
Jupiter
• Cloudy atmosphere.
• Raging storms and lightning.
• Hydrogen (88%) Helium (11%) both
invisible.
• Very colorful.
• Colors may be chemicals in the gases.
Uranus
• Is tilted on it’s side.
• Sometimes the poles face the sun.
• Each pole get’s 42 years of sun and 42 years of
darkness.
•
Neptune
• Like the great red spot Neptune’s dark spot is a
storm that doesn’t die out.
•
s around the storm are fastest in the
solar system. (1200 mph)
Pluto
• Smallest planet.
• Twice as big as it’s moon (Charon)
Comets
only form
tails when
they are
close to
the sun.
Many asteroids cross the orbits of
planets. If it crosses while the planet is
there. Well you can guess what
happens. The asteroid and the planet
collide.
• With small asteroid nothing
extraordinary happens.
• With big asteroid damage may be
caused.
Halley’s
Comet
Is only seen
every 76
years as it
travels past
Earth in
orbit.
When a comet goes through space it leaves a trail
of dust and debris that stays in space for a very
long time.
In roman mythology Mercury is the
messenger of the gods. Mercury is the
speediest planet.
Jupiter is bigger than all other gods
and goddesses he is ruler of the heavens and
the Earth.
Pluto rules the underworld the most
wicked place that you could ever imagine.
Venus, is the goddess of love, beauty
and laughter, she loves Mars.
Neptune is the god of the sea which is
often blue.
Symbols commonly used for planets
along with the sun.
The Earth is supposedly flat
says the Flat Earth Research Society
members. They gather proof that it
is not round.
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