Group 1: The Solar System

Q&As
 17/8 (Tue) Homework:
Select at least three (3)
questions to look up to and
answer in your exercise book
What is the Solar System?
What is rotate and what is revolve? Are they the same?
“Mercury is not the hottest planet in the Solar System, even though it is the
nearest to the Sun.” - Wei Ying

Which planet in the Solar System is the hottest and why?

“Mercury is shrinking.” - Wei Ying

How fast is Mercury shrinking? Is any other planet in

the Solar System shrinking too?
“Mercury is close to the size of Earth's moon.” - Wei Ying

How big is Mercury and how big is Earth’s moon?

Can you arrange the planets in the Solar System
according to their size, from the biggest to the smallest?
Rank in order of size Planet SIze
(from largest to smallest)

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“Some people call Venus the ‘greenhouse’ planet.” - Xin Yi

Why is Venus called the “greenhouse” planet?

“Venus rotates along its axis from east to west (clockwise as seen from above the North
Pole).”
What direction do planets in the Solar System rotate? - Xin Yi

Planet Direction of rotation

Mercury

Venus From east to west / clockwise

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune
“Mars is red.” - Xin Yi

What are the colours of the planets in the Solar System?

Planet Colour(s)

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune
“Mars has two (2) moons, namely Phobos and Deimos.” - Xin Yi

Can you compare & contrast Phobos and Deimos?

Phobos Deimos
Which planets in the Solar System have rings?
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
“Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the Solar System.” - Ai Jay

In your opinion, which planet is the most beautiful in

the Solar System and why?
“Uranus has its axis of rotation tilted sideway.” - Adeleine
What are the axial tilt or rotational axis of each planet in the Solar
System?
Planet Axial tilt / rotational axis

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune
“Neptune has 4 moons.” - Adeleine
What are the numbers of natural satellite i.e., moon of each planet
in the Solar System?
Planet Number of moon

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune
Which is your most favourite planet in the Solar
System and why?
“Sun is a G-class dwarf star.” - Michelle

What is a dwarf star? What are the classes of dwarf stars?

What is a Galaxy?
“There are three (3) types of galaxies, namely elliptical, spiral and irregular.”
- Michelle

In your opinion, which type of galaxy is the

most interesting and why?