P4 The Solar System

P4 The Solar System

What makes up the solar system?

The Sun ,the moon, and the planets

• The sun , the earth and the moon are the part of a system a in space called the SOLAR SYSTEM

• The Sun is the central object in the Solar System, The earth and other object in the soar system move around the sun

• The sun is the closest star to the earth

The earth

• The earth is a planet , unlike star, planets do not give out light of their own

• The earth is the only planet that is known to support life because water is present on the earth's surface, earth is also not too close or too far away from sun, and the temperature is just right for living things

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The .... is the central in our solar system

• earth

• sun

• moon

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The earth is

because do not give out or produce light of their own

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At the night we can see bright moon, because moon

the light of sun

Comets, asteroids, and meteoroids

• Besides sun , the planets and their moons there are other objects in the space Comets, asteroids, and meteoroids

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Comets

• Comets are made up of ice, dust , and small rocky particles , they are found at the edge of the solar system

• when it far away from the sun , it can hardly be seen from the earth , when the comet is close enough to the sun ,heat from the sun causes ice change directly into gas

• Comet's tail can be seen from the earth because it lighted ny the sun

Asteroids

• Asteroids are irregular-shaped pieces of rock and metal that exist in space . They are smaller than planets

• in solar system most asteroids are found in the main asteroids belt between two planets Mars and jupiter, some asteroids also been found close to the Earth

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Meteoroids

• Meteoroids are small pieces of rocks in space that have broken off from a planet or an asteroids

• visible meteoroids falling through the earth's atmosphere are called meteors or shooting stars

• meteor that reach earth's surface are called meteorites

• When a number of meteors fall from a single point in the sky, it is called a meteor shower

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Based in this picture , we call this

• comets

• asteroids

• meteoroids

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Most of the asteroids are found in the main asteoroids belt between the two planets ...... and .....

Arrangement and movement of planets in the Solar System

• Apart from the Earth , there are 7 other plants in the Solar System

• All the planets in the solar system revolve or go around the sun in specific elliptical paths known as ORBITS

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Arrangement planets from the nearest from the sun Mercury, ................,earth,........, jupiter, saturn, ................. ,neptune

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Now there are total .................. planets that we know in our Solar System

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

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All the planets in the solar system revolve or go around the sun in specific elliptical paths known as ..........

• orbits

• line

• place

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the natural satellite that earth has is .......

• titan

• moon

• ceres