GOOD MORNING!

The Planets in
the Solar
System
GUESS THE RIDDLE
 I am the eighth planet from the sun.
I am the farthest planet from the sun.
I was often considered to be a twin
planet of Uranus. Who am I?
NEPTUNE
 I am the largest planet in the solar
system. I have 67 moons. I am the
stormiest planet in the solar system.
Who am I?
JUPITER
I was the fourth planet closest to the
sun. I am a small red planet with a
very thin atmosphere of carbon
dioxide. I am the second smallest
planet in the solar system. Who am
I?
MARS
I am the third planet closest to the
sun. I am the biggest of the inner
planets. I have one moon orbiting
around me. Who am I?
EARTH
 I am the seventh planet from the
sun. I am the coldest planet in our
Solar System. I am made of gas.
Who am I?
URANUS
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 • The Sun is a 4.5-billion-year-old star made
up of hydrogen and helium. It is 864,000
miles in diameter and 10,000 degrees
Fahrenheit on the surface.
• The Sun is the center of our Solar System,
and its gravity holds the Solar System
together.
• The Sun is extremely important for our
planet: it drives weather, ocean currents,
seasons, and climate, and makes plant life
SUN possible through photosynthesis. In short,
the sun supports our life on earth.
 • Mercury is a small planet which orbits closer to
the sun than any other planets in our solar
system. It has no moon.
• Mercury's surface is very hot. It features a
barren, crater covered surface which looks
similar to the Earth's moon.
• It is so close to the Sun. Mercury has no
atmosphere which means there is no wind or
weather to speak of.
• At night, however, without an atmosphere to
MERCURY hold heat in, the temperature plummets, dropping
to-180 degrees Celsius.
• Mercury has no water or air on the surface.
 • Venus is named after the Roman goddess of
love and beauty.
• It is the brightest object in the sky besides the
Sun and the Moon.
• Second planet from the sun and the hottest
planet at 482 degrees Celsius.
• It has no moon.
• It is also known as the morning star because at
sunrise it appears in the east. It is also known
as the evening star as it appears at sunset when
VENUS it is in the west. It cannot be seen in the middle
of the night.
• Venus is the twin planet of the earth.
 • The name Earth is an Old English and German
name which simply means soil.
• Earth is the third planet from the sun. It has one
moon.
• It is the only planet that has water on its
surface. It is the only planet in the solar system
that has life.
• The Earth is larger than Mercury, Venus, and
Mars, the planets closest to it.
• The Earth differs from all the other planets
EARTH because it has such a wide diversity of life and
intelligent beings. This has only been possible
because of the Earth's atmosphere.
 • It is also described as the "Red Planet" because it is
covered with rust-like dust.
• It is the second smallest planet in the Solar System.
• It has two moons.
• Mars has many massive volcanoes and is home to
Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar
system which stands 21 km high and is 600km
across the base.
• Mars has seasons like Earth, too. These seasons are
much longer than Earth seasons because Mars is so
much farther from the sun.
• Mars has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of
MARS carbon dioxide. It is not thick enough to trap the
sun's heat like Venus, so the planet is very cold.
 • Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System. It
is so big that more than 1300 Earths could fit
inside it.
• It has 67 moons. The first 4 largest moons of
Jupiter are called Galilean moons but 46 of them
are much smaller ranging.
• Jupiter is the stormiest planet in the Solar System.
There is a permanent, but ever-changing whirlpool
of storms, known as Jupiter's Great Red Spot
which can be seen using a telescope. The Red Spot
was first seen by Robert Hooke in 1664.
JUPITER • Jupiter is made of hydrogen, helium, methane, and
ammonia. The cloudy sphere has bright belts on it
which change its shape.
 • Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar
System, after the giant Jupiter. It has 62 moons.
• Saturn is the last planet that can be seen without
using a telescope or binoculars and the planet was
known in the ancient world before telescopes were
invented. The rings, however, can only be seen
using a telescope.
• The rings were first seen by Galileo in 1610
through a telescope.
• The rings are made up of millions of ice crystals,
some as big as houses and others as small as specks
SATURN of dust.
• Saturn is very light as it is made up of more
hydrogen that helium so it is less dense.
 • Uranus was named after the Greek god of the
sky.
• The third largest planet after Jupiter and
Saturn.
• Uranus was the first planet discovered by
telescope.
• It was first seen by William Herschel in 1781
during a survey of the sky using a telescope.
• It has 27 moons.
URANUS • It is the coldest planet in our Solar System.
 • It is the farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar
System.
• It is also known to be one of the ice giants and the
fourth largest among the planets.
• It has five distinct rings and four prominent rings
arches.
• Neptune has 14 known moons and the largest is
Triton.
• Neptune is a large water planet with a blue
hydrogen methane atmosphere and faint rings.
• It is considered the twin planet of Uranus.
NEPTUNE • Storms have been spotted swirling around its
surface and freezing winds that blow about ten
times faster than hurricanes on Earth making it the
windiest planet in the Solar System.
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