Solar System

Aliens?
Shooting stars
Solar System
 Sun

• Sun is a star.
A star is a
body in space
that gives off
light of its
own.
Sun is the main source of all
forms of energy that we use.

• Solar energy is very important to life

on earth.
Green Plants

Needs
sunlight
to grow.
 Green Plants
manufactured
food using
the sun’s
energy.
Animals and
Humans
needs plants
for food.
Water from
the land
evaporates
because of
Solar Energy.
 The sun is 109 larger than
the earth.
• Largest star ever discovered, compared to
our Sun.mp4
 3 parts (atmosphere)
1. Corona – outermost
part of the sun.
2. Chromospheres –
pinkish-violet layer.
5,000km from the
surface of the sun.
3. Photosphere – surface
of the sun. It is the
main source of the
sun’s radiation. 6,000
deg. Celsius.
Sun is made up of hot gases.
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Stars at Night
 8 Planets
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Mercury
• Smaller planet than
the Earth.
• Goes around the sun
in 88 days.
• It has no moon.
• Life is not possible to
this planet.
Venus
• slightly smaller than the
earth.
• It revolves around the sun
once in 225 days.
• it has no moon.
• This planet is covered with
a dense, white, cloudy
atmosphere.
• This atmosphere reflects
sunlight’s, which makes
brighter than any planet.
Earth
• it is oblate spheroid.
• Earth revolves around the sun
once every 365 ¼ days.
• It rotates on its axis from west
to east in every 24 hours.
• Earth is the only planet known
to have living things (is the
planet we live in)
 Earth’s Atmosphere

• The envelope of
air surrounding
Earth.
• Protects living
things from the
harmful radiation
of the sun.
Earth’s Moon
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 Why the Earth is Special?
1. Most of the earth surface is covered with
water in liquid form.
2. Atmosphere is composed of about 21%
oxygen and 78% nitrogen.
3. Life exists on earth. Availability of
resources such as water, oxygen, and
food on earth.
Mars
• it orbits the sun once
in 687 days.
• Red planet – its soil is
rich in iron which is
reddish.
• Atmosphere is thinner
than that earth.
 Two satellites (moon)
Deimos (outer satellite) Phobos (inner satellite)
Jupiter
• Largest planet
• it revolves around the sun
once in about 12 years.
146 deg. Celsius its
surface temperature.
• Have a ring which is barely
visible and no solid
surface.
 Great Red Spot
• Most famous feature on the surface of this
planet, found on Jupiter’s “hurricane belt”
It is a huge and violent storm (scientists).
4 (29) largest moons of Jupiter

• First
observed by
Galileo in
1610
Saturn
• known as the most
beautiful of all the planets
because of its ring.
• It revolves around the sun
once in about 30 years.
 Saturn’s Ring
• Saturn’s ring (ice-coated rocks)
22 satellites (moon)
• Titan (largest)
Uranus
• four times larger than the
earth (giant planet)
• Revolves around the sun
in about 84 years.
• Methane atmosphere
made of which gives its
blue green color.
• Cold planet with 210 deg.
Celsius.
 15 moons
(5 major moons)
1. Miranda
2. Ariel
3. Umbriel
4. Titania
5. Oberon
Neptune
• revolves around the sun
in 165 days in an almost
circular orbit.
• Also a windiest planet
moves eastward
2,000kph.
• Uranus twin because of
the same size and is a
cold planet.
 2 of 13 satellites of Neptunes
are:

1.Triton
2.Nereid
 Song for solar System
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Dwarf Planets
Asteroids
Comets
Meteors