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Exploring Our Solar System: Planets and Phenomena

Discover the inner and outer planets, their characteristics, and the mysteries of our solar system. Learn about plate boundaries, asteroid belts, moon phases, and the order of planets from the sun.

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Exploring Our Solar System: Planets and Phenomena

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  1. Planets

  2. Do Now 3/29/13 • The type of plate boundary in which the plates move away from each other. (Mid-Ocean ridge) • Base of the continental slope that is made of large piles of sediment. • What causes changes in weather? • The moon phase in which a small part of the right side of the moon is dark. The light is growing smaller.

  3. 1. What are the characteristics of the inner planets? Inner planets: -small -rocky -dense -orbits are close together -called terrestrial planets

  4. 2. What are the characteristics of the outer planets? Outer Planets -Large -Made of gas -All have rings -Orbits are farther apart -Called the GAS GIANTS

  5. 3. What separates the inner and outer planets? • The Asteroid Belt separates the inner planets from the outer planets.

  6. What is the order of the planets from the sun? • My >>> Mercury • Very >>> Venus • Excited >>> Earth • Mother >>> Mars • Just >>> Jupiter • Served >>> Saturn • Us >>> Uranus • Nachos >>> Neptune

  7. 4. What are the characteristics of the 8 Planets?

  8. Mercury Distance From Sun: 57 Million km Rotation: 58 days Revolution: 88 days Gravity: 38% of Earth’s Atmosphere: None (Not enough gravity)

  9. Venus Distance From Sun: 107 Million km Rotation: 243 days Revolution: 225 days Gravity: 90% of Earth’s Atmosphere: Very Active Earth’s Evil Twin

  10. Earth Distance From Sun:150 million km Rotation: 24 hours Revolution: 365 ¼ days Only planet that supports life. Where we live!

  11. Mars Distance From Sun:229 million km Rotation: 24 hours 37 minutes Revolution:687 days Gravity: 38% of Earth’s Red Planet Water at the Poles

  12. Jupiter Distance From Sun:777 million km Rotation: 9 hours 55 minutes Revolution: 11 years, 313 days Gravity: 250% of Earth’s Stormy Atmosphere Separated from Mars by asteroid belt.

  13. Saturn Distance From Sun: 1,429 million km Rotation: 10 hours 13 minutes Revolution: 29 years, 155 days Gravity: 108% Earth’s Saturn is still forming.

  14. Uranus Distance From Sun: 2871 million km Rotation: 17 hours 14 minutes Revolution: 83 years, 274 days Gravity: 91% of Earths Spins on its side. The Small Giant

  15. Neptune Distance From Sun: 4,496 million km Rotation: 16 hours 17 mins Revolution: 163 years, 265 days Gravity: 119% of Earth’s

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