Name that planet
This is the furthest planet from the Sun.
What is Neptune?
The inner planets all have this kind of composition.
What is rocky composition?
If you made a scale model of the solar system, and the Sun was the size of a large beach ball, the Earth would be this big.
What is the size of a marble?
What are a Galaxy?
Picture 1 - True/False: This is a scale model of the solar system.
What is False?
This is the biggest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The outer planets have this kind of composition.
What is gas composition?
This is what a Scientific Model needs to be in order for it to be a Scale Model.
What is Proportional?
This is another name for a moon.
What is a natural satellite?
Picture 2 - This planet is the only planet to rotate on it's side.
What is Uranus?
This is the planet with the largest ring system in the solar system.
What is Saturn?
All of these kind of planets have rings, and none of the other kind of planets have rings.
What are the outer planets?
This is the force that causes planets to orbit the Sun.
What is Gravity?
This is the type of planetary motion that determines a planets day and night cycle.
What is Rotation?
Picture 3 - This planet is known for it's big red spot (a storm that's existed for hundreds of years). But it also has bright northern lights due to it's strong magnetic field!
What is Jupiter?
This is the inner most planet from the sun?
What is Mercury?
These planets (inner or outer) are MUCH smaller than the other planets.
What are Inner Planets?
The Earth is this many Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun.
What is 1 AU?
This is the type of planetary motion that determines a planet's year.
What is Revolution or Orbit?
Picture 4 - This planet is known for it's rings, but it also has 6 storms forming an almost perfect hexagon on it's north pole.
What is Saturn?
This is planet is known as Earth's "twin" or "sister planet" because they are similar in size.
What is Venus?
These planets orbit the Sun much slower than the other planets.
What are Outer Planets?
These two planets can be represented using the same objects (pea or pencil eraser) when making a scale model because they're almost exactly the same size.
What are Venus and Earth?
The majority of the Sun is made of these two elements.
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
Picture 5 - This is the hottest planet in the solar system on average, even though it isn't the closest planet to the Sun.
What is Venus?