Download The Solar System

Angela Buendo
The Solar System
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Objectives :
Students will understand what the Solar System is.
Students will learn and understand the planets in
the Solar System.
Students will learn and understand where Earth is
located.
What is the Solar System?
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The sun (a star)
Has nine planets which are Earth, Uranus,
Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Neptune, and
Mercury.
The nine planets orbit the sun. That means to
move or travel around in an orbital or elliptical
path (circular)
What does it look like?
Where is the Solar System?
The Solar System is out of the Earths atmosphere.
It is located in Outer Space.
What is in the Solar
System?
Now Lets Get Started………
Earth
This is our home planet. THIS IS WHERE
WE LIVE!!!!
 The third planet from the Sun.
 It is made up of Air, water, land, and life including humans (you and I).
 The fifth largest in the solar system
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Uranus
The seventh planet from the Sun.
 It takes 84 years to complete one orbit.
That’s one complete circle around the sun.
 Uranus, with no solid surface, is one of the
gas giant planets.
 Uranus gets its blue-green color from
methane gas
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Jupiter
Is the fifth planet from the Sun
 It is the largest Planet in the Solar System
 It is 11 times Earth's diameter. That means
the width of the Planet.
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Saturn
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Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium
Winds in the upper atmosphere reach 500
meters (1,600 feet) per second so in comparison
the strongest hurricane-force winds on Earth top
out at about 110 meters, or (360 feet), per
second.
These super-fast winds, combined with heat
rising from within the planet's interior, cause the
yellow and gold bands visible in the atmosphere.
Mars
This planet is said to be the most like
Earth.
 Great dust storms engulf the entire planet
at times creating big craters on the planets
surface.
 The planet is also covered with volcanoes.
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Venus
Earth and Venus are very similar in size
 It is covered by thick, rapidly spinning
clouds that trap surface heat
 Temperatures hot enough to melt lead and
pressure so intense that standing on
Venus would feel like the pressure felt 900
meters deep in Earth's oceans
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Neptune
The eighth planet from the Sun.
 The farthest planet from the Sun.
 Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165
years .
 It is invisible to the naked eye because of
its extreme distance from Earth.
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Mercury
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Closest planet to the Sun
This planet is on the smaller side and is very
rocky
The length of one Mercury day is equal to
58.646 Earth days.
Day temperatures can reach 467 degrees
Celsius and night temperatures can go down to
-170 degrees Celsius .
Now that we have learned
about the Planets and the
Solar System….
Now be prepared for a little quiz
tomorrow…
Where did I find my information?
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm
 http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.
htm
 http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nine
planets/picturelist.html
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