Today we are going to work with the Solar System.

You have to
visit the different websites in order to find out the following
information. You are going to have a mark for this work.

Answer the following questions

1) What is the Solar System?

2) How many planets are there in the Solar System? Name them.

3) How many categories of planets are there in the Solar System?

Classify the planets in each category.

4) The names of the planets are names of Roman’s gods. What were
they gods of?

5) Which planets have got moons? How many moons have those planets
got?

6) Which planet is hotter, Jupiter or Mars?

7) Which planet is colder, Pluto or Uranus?

8) What is a comet made of? Name one comet.

9) What is the sun?

10) What is an asteroid/meteoroid/meteorite?

Links

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/planets.htm

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1
/solar_system.html

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/psgk3e
x.htm

http://www.frontiernet.net/~kidpower/astronomy.html