Solar System

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Solar System

• Samantha Gibby
• Grade 3
• Pleasant Ridge Elementary

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Planets

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Neptune
• Uranus
• Pluto

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Mercury

• Mercury is a small planet.
• Mercury is closest to the sun.
• Mercury is very hot.
• Mercury is made of rock.

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Venus

• Venus is the second planet from the sun.
• Venus is about the same size as the Earth.
• Venus is so bright it looks like a star.
• We can see Venus from Earth.
• Venus is very hot.

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Earth

• Earth orbits the sun.
• Earth has one moon.
• Earth is the third planet from the sun.
• Earth has water, land and air.

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Mars

• Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.
• It is cold on Mars
• Mars is red.
• Mars has 2 moons.
• Mars has sand and rocks on it.

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Jupiter

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun.
• Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar
  system.
• Jupiter has a big red spot on its surface.
• Jupiters red spot is a huge storm.
• Jupiter has rings and many moons.

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Saturn

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.
• It is the second largest planet in our solar
  system.
• Saturn has rings that are made of pieces of rocks
  and ice.
• Saturn has 28 moons.

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Uranus

• Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun.
• Uranus has 21 moons.
• Uranus is made of frozen blue-green gas called
  methane.

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Neptune

• Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun.
• Neptune has 8 moons.
• Neptune has a great dark spot.
• This great dark spot might be a hole in its
  atmosphere.

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Pluto

• Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun.
• Scientist think it may be covered with ice.
• Pluto is the smallest planet.
• Pluto is very cold.
• Pluto has one moon.

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The Sun

• The sun is a star.

• A million planets the size of Earth could fit
  inside the sun.

• The sun is very hot.