Solar System Unit

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Solar System Unit

• By
• Brianna Shields
• January 3, 2005

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DO NOW

• 1. What planet do we live on?
• 2. What is at the center of our solar system?
• 3. How many planets are there?

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GOAL

• To be able to explain the universe in terms of
  stars, planets and moons relative to our solar
  system

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Objects in the Solar System

• Solar System

• Objects travel around/ orbit the sun
• Held in by suns gravity

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Objects in the Solar System

• 9 planets

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

My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
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Objects in the Solar System

• Asteroids

• Huge
• Strangely shaped
• Rock or metal

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Objects in the Solar System

• Asteroid Belt

• Area of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter

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Objects in the Solar System

• Moons

• Satellites or small rock orbiting a planet

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Objects in the Solar System

• Comet

• Chunks of rock, dust, ice
• Dirty snowballs
• Long, flat oval orbits
• Halleys Comet- 76 yrs to orbit sun

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Objects in the Solar System

• Meteoroids

• Small bits of rock in space

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Objects in the Solar System

• Meteors

• A meteoroid that has entered earths atmosphere
• Begins to burn
• Shooting star

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Objects in the Solar System

• Meteorite

• Meteor that reaches earths surface

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Assessment

• Explain how the orbits of the planets are shaped.
  What object do they all orbit around?

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Assessment

• Compare and contrast meteors, meteorites and
  meteoroids.
• Which is pictured here? Explain

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Assessment

• Compare and contrast asteroids, meteoroids and
  comets
• Which is pictured here? Explain

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Assessment

• Describe how to tell whether something can be
  considered a moon

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Assessment

• Critique this picture and the mans statement
• This here meteoroid done fell outta tha sky.
  Almost done bopped me in my head!

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The Nine Planets

• Inner Planets

• Rocky surfaces (mountains and craters)
• Metal cores
• No rings
• No or few moons
• Smaller sizes
• Warmer (closer to sun)

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The Nine Planets

• Inner Planets

• 1. MERCURY
• Fastest revolution
• Slow rotation

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The Nine Planets

• Inner Planets

• 2. Venus
• Thick acid clouds trap heat (greenhouse effect)
• Retrograde rotation (opposite)

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The Nine Planets

• Inner Planets

• 3. Earth
• Liquid water
• Life
• One moon

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The Nine Planets

• Inner Planets

• 4. Mars
• Pink sky
• Icecaps
• Rust color
• Volcanoes channels

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The Nine Planets

• Outer Planets

• Colorful gaseous surfaces
• Giant sizes
• Many rings
• Many moons
• Cold temps (far from sun)

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The Nine Planets

• Outer Planets

• 1. Jupiter
• Great red spot (wind storm)
• Giant liquid H ocean

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The Nine Planets

• Outer Planets

• 2. Saturn
• Ice rings
• 20 moons

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The Nine Planets

• Outer Planets

• 3. Uranus
• Rotates on side
• Vertical ice rings
• Thick blue-green clouds

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The Nine Planets

• Outer Planets

• 4. Neptune
• Blue color
• Cloudy
• Great dark spot
• Slushy surface

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The Nine Planets

• Odd ball Planet

• 5. Pluto
• Double planet
• Small
• Hard surface
• Very cold

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Solar System Diagram

• Look at the side board and copy the solar system
  diagram that Mrs. Shields is creating

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Assessment

• Examine the photo at the left. Which planet is
  this? What evidence can you provide that
  supports this?

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Assessment

• Examine the photo at the left. Which planet is
  this? What evidence can you provide that
  supports this?

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Assessment

• Examine the photo at the left. Which planet is
  this? What evidence can you provide that
  supports this?

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Assessment

• Compare and contrast the inner and outer planets.