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Chapter 7: Intro to the Solar System

Scale Model
You will make a scale model of two members of
our Solar System with a partner.

1. Divide playdough into 5 equal pieces.


2. Take one piece and divide it into 10 equal pieces.
3. Set the small piece aside and mesh everything else together into
one big sphere
4. Roll the small piece into a little sphere

5. Write down three guesses about what these soar system objects
might represent?
Scale Model
How far apart do you need to place the two objects to make a true
model?

1. Using a string and a ruler, measure the big sphere's diameter and
the small sphere's diameter.
2. Place the big and little spheres 30 big-sphere apart.

3. Repeat the procedure but now with two playdough cans.

4. How does your new model differ from the first model?
Scale Models

The average distance between the Earth and the


Moon is 384,500 km. so the ratio of the Earth-
Moon separation to the Earth’s diameter

𝟑𝟖𝟒,𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝒌𝒎
=
𝟏𝟐,𝟕𝟓𝟔 𝒌𝒎
Solar System Scale Model
Using this data, make a 4-meter scale model of the solar system.
Origins of the Solar System

Regularities Among Planets


• All planets lie in nearly the same plane and nearly revolve in the
same direction around the Sun
• Evidence that the Sun and planets formed together from a
spinning glass cloud called a Solar nebula
• Sun has the same hydrogen composition as Jupiter and Saturn
Solar System
Most of the objects formed together with the Sun about 4.5 billion
years ago when a cloud of interstellar gas collapsed resulting in a solar
nebula.
Terrestrial Planets
The four planets closest to the Sun are known as the inner or
terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They are
• Made of rocky material,
• Surfaces are solid,
• Don’t have rings,
• Very few moons, and
• Relatively small
Jovian Planets
The four planets furthest from the Sun are known as the outer or
Jovian planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
They are:
• Made of gas and ice
• No solid surface
• All ring system
• Multiple moons
• Immense in size
Asteroid Belt
• An asteroid belt is a flat disc of rocky objects full of remnants from
the solar system formation.

• Most of them are found in a ring


between Mars and Jupiter.

• Some asteroids are round, some are


elongated, and some even have a
satellite.
Kuiper Belt
• Another disc of debris lies much further out and orbits the Jovian planets called the
Kuiper Belt.

• Home of most comets and dwarf planets


• Comets are composed of ice and dust
Oort Cloud- Edge of the Solar System

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