Solar System Overview

​Our Solar System: An overview

​Inner Planets:

​Terrestrial: Planets that are Earth like. Inner Planets made of rock or have iron cores like Earth.

Mercury: 88 days; 42 million miles from the sun; no moons; temp: 800 F
Venus: 225 days; 66 million miles from the sun; no moons; temp: 900 F because thick atmosphere from carbon dioxide.
Earth: 365 days; 93 million miles from sun; 1 moon; hottest: 134 F
Mars: 687 days; 142 million miles from the sun; 2 moons: Phobos and Deimos

Multiple Select

Which two planets in our solar system do not have moons? Select all that apply.

• Mercury

• Earth

• Mars

• Venus

Reorder

Reorder the following planets by their surface temperature and not by their distance from the sun.

• Venus

• Mercury

• Earth

• Mars

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• 2
• 3
• 4

​Gas Giants: Outer Planets

Jupiter: 473 million miles from the Sun; 95 moons; the largest planet in our system.
Saturn: 894 million miles from the Sun; 146 moons; it has 7 distinct rings.
Uranus: 1.8 billion miles from the Sun; 28 moons; it rotates on it's side comparatively.
Neptune: 2.4 billion miles from the Sun; 16 moons; 1 year (rotation is 165 earth years.

Reorder

Reorder the following planets based on their distance from the sun:

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

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• 2
• 3
• 4

Labelling

Label each gas planet

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Saturn

Jupiter

Uranus

Neptune

Multiple Choice

Which planet is the largest planet in our solar system?

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Neptune