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Bell Work:
Using your text, page 234, find the following
answers for your bell work:
1. Unlike the earth, on the second planet from
the sun (_________) the sun rises in the
_____________ and sets in the
__________.
2. Venus’ day and year are ________.
3. What is rotation? Revolution?
Bell Work
• Pick up a benchmark test from the front student
desk.
You will check your answers to the ones on the
board. Any question you answered incorrectly,
you will write on a separate piece of paper the
question and then the appropriate answer and
why that answer is correct. Today we will only do
five.
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. A
10. A
VENUS
• Second planet from
the sun
•Rotates in the
opposite direction than
earth
•Venus has no moons
•Is the hottest planet
Earth’s Twin?
• In many ways, Venus
is like Earth’s twin.
• They have about the
same size, mass, and
density.
• BUT…Venus rotates
in a different direction
so… the sun rises in
the west and sets in
the east. (Retrograde
rotation)
http://www.cosmos4kids.com/extras/dtop_solsyst/venus_580.jpg
Venus
• Has the most dense atmosphere than any of the
terrestrial planets
• Mainly consists of carbon dioxide but also some
deadly acids
• The carbon dioxide traps thermal energy
causing a greenhouse effect-causing the
temperature to be so high
• Average temperature 464*C
• Venus has the hottest surface of any other
planet in the solar system!
Second orbital path
Venus is’ Orbit
VENUS
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Distance from the sun
Period of rotation
Period of revolution
Diameter
Density
Surface Temperature
Surface gravity
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6.0 light-minutes
243 days (retrograde)
224 days, 17 hours
12,104 km
5.24 g/cm3
464* C
91% of Earth’s
Magellan
May 4, 1989
Venus
• Venus is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun
and the Moon, and sometimes looks like a bright star in
the morning or evening sky. We can't see the surface of
the planet because it has a very thick atmosphere filled
with clouds that strongly reflect sunlight.
• Nonetheless, space missions sent to Venus have
managed to land on and photograph the surface while
the Magellan spacecraft mapped the surface of the
planet from above.
• These maps reveal a surface covered with craters, over
1600 major volcanoes, mountains, large highland
terrains, and vast lava plains.