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Entry Task
Monday, June 10th
Answer the following
questions, full sentences,
IQIA.
1. What are the four types
of processes that shape
planets’ surfaces?
2. For each of the above
processes, give an
example of a feature
that the process can
produce.
3. How can an atmosphere
affect the temperature
of a planet’s surface?
Schedule:
• Inner Planets
Objective:
• I can understand information
about the inner solar system
Homework:
• Make sure to bring planet
book to work on tomorrow
• Bring book number for a check
tomorrow
Please have on desk:
• Planet Book
• The four planets that are closest
to the sun are called the
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS.
• These planets have rocky crusts
and dense mantles and cores.
• Scientists study Earth to learn
more about other planets.
• All of the terrestrial planets
formed in similar ways and
follow similar patterns.
• All terrestrial planets have
layers.
– The heaviest materials form the
core.
– Lighter rock formed a mantle
around the core.
– The lightest rock rose to the
surface and formed a crust.
• Tectonics is the processes of
change in a crust due to the
motion of hot material
underneath.
• The crusts of the planets can
be twisted, wrinkled up, or
stretched out by the mantle.
• Volcanism occurs when
molten rock moves from a
planet’s hot interior onto its
surface.
• When the inside of a planet
cools enough, no more molten
rock reaches the surface.
• Weather or small impacts
break down rocks.
• The broken material is moved
by a group of processes called
erosion.
• The material may form dunes,
new layers of rock, or other
features.
• A small object sometimes hits
a planet’s surface so fast that
it causes an explosion.
• The crater it leaves behind
can be 10 times larger than
the object that created it!
• The next four slides will tell you
how these processes affected the
Earth.
• Complete the “EARTH” page in
your planet book.
• Earth’s crust is split into large
pieces called tectonic plates.
• These plates are moved by
Earth’s hot mantle.
• Mountains, valleys and other
features form as the plates move.
• On Earth, magma often builds up
into mountains and eventually
erupts as lava.
• On Earth,
weathering and
erosion create
sedimentary
rocks, sand
dunes, fill in
lakes, and
change the
topography.
• On Earth, impact craters are
generally erased by other
geologic processes.
• Impact craters can be found
under lakes.
• Mass: 6 x 1024 kg
• Diameter: 12,800 km
• Average distance from the
sun: 1 AU
(150 million km)
• Orbits in: 365 days
• Rotates in: 24 hours
Monday October 20, 2008
• Entry Task:
– If you were on a space mission and had to go
out to repair your spaceship what would your
weight be? Explain why. (Minimum 3
sentences)
• Homework:
– Finish Terrestrial planets in planet book (what
you don’t get done in class)
• Read pages 725-732 and learn
more about how the four
processes, that we discussed
with earth, shaped Mercury,
Venus, and Mars.
• Complete these pages in your
Planet Book.
• Work on your cover (must be
colored and very well done for
extra credit)
Tuesday, June
Entry Task
1.Name one way the outer
solar system is different
from the inner solar system.
2.Why are the outer solar
system planets called gas
giants?
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11
Schedule:
• Read/RSG 21.3
• Planet Book- Outer Planets
Objective:
•I can understand that the
outer solar system has four
giant planets
Homework
• Finish Planet Book
Entry Task
Wednesday, June 12th
Schedule:
• Outer Planets
Answer the following questions
using full sentences, IQIA.
Objective:
• I can understand important
information about the outer
1. Which planet has a greater
planets
mass then all the other
planets put together?
Homework:
2. What do you see instead of • 20.2 and 20.3 Quiz
a solid surface when you
tomorrow
look at an image of a giant
planet?
Please have on desk:
3. Which planets have rings?
• 21.3 RSG
• Planet Book
• Beyond Mars stretches the
outer solar system where the
four largest planets slowly orbit
the sun.
• We call these planets,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune, the gas giants.
• The gas
giants are
made mainly
of hydrogen,
helium, and
other gases.
• When you think of gases, you
probably think of Earth’s air,
which is not very dense.
• However, the giant planets are
so large and have such huge
amounts of these gases that
they have a LOT of mass.
• The HUGE gravitational force
from such a large mass is
enough to pull the gas
particles close together and
make the atmosphere very
dense.
• Inside, the gases become
more dense than water.
• The outermost parts are less
dense and more like Earth’s
atmosphere.
Jupiter
Imagine traveling into one…
• At first the atmosphere is thin
and very cold. There may be a
haze of gases.
Saturn
Saturn
• A little lower is a layer of clouds
that reflect sunlight, just like
on Earth. There are strong
winds and other weather
patterns.
Neptune
• Lower down, it
is warmer and
there are layers
of clouds of
different
materials.
Uranus
• As you go farther, the
atmosphere gradually
becomes dense enough to be
called a liquid. It also gets
thousands of degrees hotter
as you get closer to the center
of the planet!
• The materials
around you
become more
and more dense
until they are
solid.
Neptune
• Read pages 734-739 to find
out more about the gas
giants.
• Complete the pages in your
Planet Book.
Entry Task
Thursday, June 13th
Schedule:
• 21.2 and 21.3 Quiz
Do any last minute studying • Talk about Final!
for your 20.2 and 20.3
Objective:
Quizzes!!!!!!!
• I can be assessed on planets
of our solar system
Homework:
• FINAL NEXT THURSDAY!!!!!
Entry Task
Friday, June 14th
Schedule:
• Review for Final
Write down as many
Objective:
things as your remember • I can understand important
learning from this second
information from second
semester.
semester
Be prepared to share!
Homework:
• Books due on MONDAY!!!!!
• Bring in your book MONDAY!!!!
• BOOK CHECK MONDAY!!!!!!!
• Final on Thursday 