Solar System Objects (Topic 12, Lesson1)

Solar System Objects

Topic 12, Lesson 1

Standards:

How do the characteristics of the planets, moons, and smaller objects, in the solar system compare?

Guiding Question:

Guiding Question:

​Guiding Question:

The solar system consists of the Sun and everything that orbits, or travels around, the Sun. This includes the eight planets and their moons, dwarf planets, and countless asteroids, comets, and other small, icy objects.

​​Solar System

One astronomical unit, or 'au', is the distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is used to compare the distances of other bodies in the Solar System, such as the Sun, the planets, comets, and asteroids.

Astronomical Unit

The Sun. is the star at the center of the solar system. It is a hot ball of gases that gives off great amounts of energy. Life on Earth depends on light and heat from the Sun.

Sun

A planet must do three things: it must orbit a star, it must be big enough to have enough gravity to force a spherical shape, and it must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any objects of a similar size near its orbit.

Planet

The Moon is a large natural object that orbits, or travels around, Earth. After the Sun it is the brightest object in the sky. The average distance between the Moon and Earth is about 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers).

Moon

Asteroids are small, rocky bodies that have been left over from the formation of the planets 4.5 billion years ago. They are often known as 'minor planets'. There are thought to be billions of these chunks of rock. Most of them lie in a doughnut-shaped 'main belt' between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroid

Small chunks of rock that travel through space are known as meteoroids. If they enter a planet's atmosphere and burn up, they are then seen as meteors. Sometimes larger pieces of rock survive long enough to crash into a planet's surface.

Meteoroids

Comets

Comets are large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the Sun. Best known for their long, streaming tails, these ancient objects are leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

Features:

A feature is a unique quality or characteristic that something has.

Draw

Put an X on the object in the center of the solar system. Draw a Circle around Earth.

Labelling

Identify and fill in the names of the planets.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Jupiter

Uranus

Saturn

Neptune

Earth

Venus

Mercury

Mars

Open Ended

What do the curved lines in the illustration represent? How can you tell?

Use complete sentences to respond.

Dropdown

Earth is the ​

Select answer

planet from the sun and our home.

Multiple Choice

The solar system consits of the sun, the planets, a variety of smaller objects and what else?

• Kuiper belt

• Satellites

• Moons

• Oceans

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sun is at the center of the universe.

• True

• False

Dropdown

The strength of the ​

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force between any two objects in the solar system depends on their ​

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and the distance between them.

Open Ended

Please respond using complete sentences.

Open Ended

Multiple Choice

The term Solar System means what?

• Having to do with the moon.

• Having to do with the planets.

• Having to do with the sun.

• Having to do with the Earth.

Multiple Choice

True or False: The sun is a star that is about 39 million miles away from Earth.

• False

• True

Open Ended

Type the number ninety-three million below.

Multiple Choice

What is the value of the 93,000,000 the underlined digit in the following number.

• 9 million

• 90 million

• 900 million

• 9 hundred thousand

Multiple Choice

True of False: The sun is the largest object in the solar system.

• False

• True

Dropdown

The sun makes up what percent of all of the mass in the solar system ​

Select answer

.

Dropdown

The suns massive ​

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is what keeps all the planets and other objects in the solar system from drifting away.​

Dropdown

The sun is composed mostly of what to elements ​

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​ and ​

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.

Multiple Choice

Mercury is the ____ planet in the solar system.

• largest

• smallest

• slowest

• darkest

Multiple Choice

True or False: Mercury has 62 moons.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

Mercury takes ___ days to orbit the moon.

• 62

• 88

• 365

• 100

Dropdown

​ ​

Select answer

​ is the second planet from the sun and called Earth's​

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planet because they are very close in size and gravity.

Multiple Choice

True or False: Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system because its thick atmosphere consists of what element?

• oxygen

• helium

• carbon dioxide

• hydrogen

Multiple Choice

Venus is the beautiful to look at because of what feature?

• its color

• its shape

• its brightness

• its mass

Dropdown

Earth is considered a ​

Select answer

planet because it is the only planet to have living things.

Multiple Choice

Mars appears to be red because of iron oxide which is compared to what in this video?

• cooper like material

• rust like material

• oxygen

• uranium

Drag and Drop

Mars atomosphere is made up of ​​

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​

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and ​

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, it is also very ​

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​ and ​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

carbon

dioxide

oxygen

cold

rocky

hot

flat

Multiple Choice

True of false: There is water ice on Mars thus, scientist believe that it cannot be inhabited by humans.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

How many robots are currently located and Mars and providing information about it back to humans on Earth.

• One

• None

• Three

• Two

Multiple Choice

Mars has ____irregular shaped moons.

• sixty-two

• one hundred fifty

• two

• none

Multiple Choice

What is an asteroid belt?

• A ring of comets that orbit the sun filled with dust and rocks.

• A ring of rocky objects orbiting the sun.

• A ring of planents orbiting the sun.

• A large celestial object that plummets to the Earth every hundred years.

Dropdown

Jupiter is called a ​

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giant and is the ​

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​

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​from the sun.

Multiple Choice

True or False: There is no ground on Jupiter thus, humans cannot land on it.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Jupiter has a fierce storm names what?

• the great white

• the great blue spot

• the great storm

• the Great Red Spot

Dropdown

Jupiter has had a storm occuring for about ​

Select answer

​ years.

Dropdown

The planet saturn is the ​

Select answer

​ planet from the sun and known for its​

Select answer

.

Dropdown

Saturns rings are composed of many small ​

Select answer

particles and ​

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.

Multiple Choice

True of False: Saturn is not a very dense pattern thus, if you found a bathtub and could fit it inside it would not float but sink.

• False

• True

Dropdown

Uranus actually spins ​

Select answer

and is the ​

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​ planet form the sun.

Multiple Choice

True or False: Uranus the seventh planet from the sun is a gas giant.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

Uranus has ___known moons.

• 62

• 27

• 1

• 57

Multiple Choice

Uranus is covered in blue clouds that are composed of what element?

• einsteinium

• idodine

• methane

• uranium

Multiple Choice

Extra: The blue methane cloud that encircle Uranus are non-toxic

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Neptune the eight planet from the sun is also composed of methane and has a bluish appearance like Saturn.

• False

• True

Dropdown

Neptune is the ​

Select answer

​ planet fromt the sun.

Multiple Choice

It takes Neptune 164 ____to orbit the sun because it is so far away.

• days

• years

• decades

• centuries

Dropdown

While Mercury is orbits the sun ​

Select answer

​ Neptune orbits more ​

Select answer

.

Multiple Choice

Pluto was discovered in what year?

• 1930

• 1881

• 1963

• 1776

Multiple Choice

True or False: Pluto is considered a dwarf planet because it is much smaller than a planet.

• False

• True

Math Response

In 1930 Pluto was discover, however in 2006 it was reclassified as a dwarf planet due to its size. Type in an equation sentence to show why it has been 76 years since Pluto was declared a dwarf planet.

Type answer here

Correct Answer: 2006-1930=76

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