THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The solar system is made up of:

-an average star: the Sun- the richest source of electromagnetic energy in the solar system , giving off
heat and light

- 8 planets: -4 terrestrial- the innermost planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

-4 gaseous- farther away from the Sun: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter

-satellites of the planets, revolving around them: The Moon- a ball of rock that orbits around the
Earth, in the same way that the Earth orbits around the Sun. (Other planets have moons too, Jupiter
has at least 66 !)

- comets, asteroids, meteorites

- the interplanetary medium

1.The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury, and the farthest away is Neptune

2.The biggest planet is Jupiter, and the smallest planet is Mercury

3 Earth is the only planet that we know has creatures living on it.

4.Fill in with the words: universe, galaxy, star in the right form
The Sun is just one of hundreds of billions of stars in the Galaxy that we live in, which is called THE MILKY WAY. The whole
Universe has at least 100 billion galaxies in it.

There are different types of Galaxy in the Milky way which are grouped and named according to their size. The Sun is a
‘yellow dwarf’ . A ‘red dwarf’ is half the size of the Sun and much less bright. A ‘supergiant’ is a supergiant star that is about
70 times as big as the Sun and can be 100,000 times as bright.

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Planet Made of Size Duration Characteris Average Sign of the

rock/gas? (diameter) of travel tics temperature zodiac it
around governs 
the Sun and
characteristics
it gives the sign
(optional
column)
Mercury 4,000km 88 days Mercury appear- 452°K. Gemini
s to have a solid
silicate crust.
Rock

Venus Venus is 12,000 km 224 days Permanently  864 degrees Libra,

made up of a
central iron across covered in Fahrenheit taurus
core and a clouds
rocky mantle

Earth Rock 12,00km 365 days Earth is a 14°C Virgo

(and liquid terrestrial planet
water- the with liquid water
only planet covering roughly
with the right 70 percent of its
temperature solid surface.
for that)
Mars iron 6,000km 687 days when it is  80 degrees Aries
opposite the fahrenheit
sun, it is twice
as bright as
Sirius, the
brightest star.
Jupiter 139,000km 4,300 Has 66 moons  Minus 234 Sagittarius
Water, rock days degrees
and metallic
Fahrenheit 
hydrogen.

Saturn 116,000km 10,755 Saturn is  Minus 234 Capricorn

Hydrogen days famous as the degrees
and helium 'lord of the rings' Fahrenheit 

Uranus 50,000km 30,600 The rings of -220 C Aquarius

Ice Uranus were the
days first to be seen
after Saturn's.

Neptune 49,000km .09 years It is the windiest 346 F  Pisces

planet
 Water, Elusive,
ammonia dreamy

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