Download Sun, Earth, Moon Foldable Sun Facts

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Sun, Earth, Moon Foldable
• Take double-sided handout, tri-fold like a
letter with “Sun, Earth, Moon” title on front
fold
• When complete, glue into notebook.
– Don’t forget to date & title your page
• Inside fold, all answers are “Sun”
Sun Facts
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Rotates on an axis
Source of heat and light
Medium size star
Sphere of burning gas plasma
A million times bigger than the Earth
No real solid surface
Temperature on the surface is 5,600°C
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Earth Facts
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3rd planet from the sun
4 times larger than the moon
Rotates every 24 hours (1 day) on an axis
Has (flowing) water and (thick) atmosphere
LIFE: plants & living things
Only planet to support life
Sphere of rock
Moon Facts
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Sphere of rock
Rotates on an axis
No atmosphere
No life
Surface scarred and cratered
Natural satellite
27 days to revolve around the Earth
Orbits the Earth
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Solar System (bottom)
My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nachos
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Sun, Earth, Moon Foldable
• We are going to modify it and add
more info!
• Take a legal size printer paper (8.5
x 14 in)
– Cut off bottom 3 in
– Fold in half “hot-dog” style, cut
along crease
– Give half to a friend, keep the other
half
– Cover bottom solar system half of
foldable, tape it on, draw lines
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More Sun Facts!
Latin (sci-fi) name: Sol; adjective: solar
Medium-size, main-sequence star
Distance from Earth (mean) = 1.5 x 108 km
Light takes 8 min 19 s to travel to Earth
Made of mostly hydrogen and helium plasma (not gas)
Mass = 1.99 x 1030 kg (about 330,000 Earths)
About 4.5 billion years old
Not made of fire, but burning plasma by nuclear reaction
Has layers determined by density, composition,
movement, temperature
• Strong, overlapping, magnetic fields
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More Earth Facts!
• Latin (sci-fi) name: Terra; adjective: terran
– Also sometimes called Gaia
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Densest planet in solar system (D = 5.51 g/cm3)
Largest rocky planet in system (v = 1.08 x 1012 km3)
About 4.5 billion years old
Lithosphere broken into tectonic plates
Active core (hot, generates energy)
Axial tilt 23.4°
Strong magnetic field, protects from solar radiation
Gravity = 9.8 m/s2
Has layers determined by density, composition,
movement, temperature
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More Moon Facts!
• Latin (sci-fi) name: Luna; adjective: lunar
• Always shows same face to Earth (near side)
• Slowly moving away from Earth, and slowing Earth’s rotation
(lengthening the day)
• About 4.5 billion years old
• Formed when a Mars-sized planet (Theia) crashed into Earth,
the debris became the Moon
• Has layers determined by density, composition, temperature
• Maria: solidified lava “seas”
• Highlands (terrae): lighter, higher areas
• Weak magnetic field
• Mass = 7.35 x 1022 kg, volume = 2.2 x 1010 km3
• Gravity = 1.62 m/s2, Axial tilt = 1.52°
Homework:
Sun, Earth, Moon Comparison
• In your notebook, date and title your page, then
draw a 3-circle venn diagram as shown
Sun
• Fill it out! 
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