Inner Planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Define Rotation
Spinning on an axis
Name the outer planets in order from closest to the sun.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
This is located between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid Belt
Which statement describes our SUN.
1. Yellow Large Far
2. Red Medium Close
3. Yellow Medium Close
3. Yellow Medium and Close
Name 3 characteristics of inner planets.
What are rocky, generally smaller, fewer moons, faster revolution.
Define Revolution
Orbiting or going around another object.
Which planet is tilted on its side?
Uranus
Frozen ball of ice and dust
Comet
Planet X is large, made of gas and has 18 moons. Is planet X an inner or outer planet? How do you know?
Outer. Characteristics.
True or False: Earth is the only planet in our solar system known to have liquid water.
True
What causes Earth to have seasons?
Tilt and Revolution
Name 3 characteristics of outer planets.
Larger, Made of gas, Rings, Many moons, Longer Revolution time.
This is often called a shooting star and appears as a streak in the sky.
Meteor
Which describes the characteristics of a star?
1. Small Solid Hot
2. Large Gas Surface Hot
3. Large Rocky Cool
2. Stars are large, hot, and made of gas.
The hottest planet in our Solar System.
What is Venus
What causes Earth to have day and night?
The rotation/spin on axis.
Why does Jupiter have the most moons of any planet?
Due to its size it has a stronger gravitational pull than all of the other planets.
These 2 orbit the sun
Asteroid and Comet
Ohio is experiencing Winter, What season would it be in South America? Use the globe to explain to the class.
The tilt of the axis allows the southern hemisphere to recieve more direct sunlight which makes it summer time.
List the inner planets in order from smallest to largest.
Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth
On the board draw the Earth, Moon, and Sun and how they orbit each other.
Sun in the middle.
Earth revolving around the Sun.
Moon revolving around the Earth
True or False: Uranus has the longest revolution period of any planet.
False, it is Neptune: 165 years.
Made of rock, invisible in our sky, and found between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid
This season starts off cold and begins to warm up.
Spring