1. SOLAR SYSTEM
By
RAJKMAR & KARISHMA,
VIII &VI standard,
Panchayat union middle school,
Visoor, Uthiramerur union,
Kancheepuram district,
Tamilnadu.
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3. Goals
Identify the solar family
Understanding the connectivity of the planets
Describe the working of the planets cycle
Identify the function of the solar system
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4. Sun
The sun is the biggest, brightest, and hottest object in
the solar system.
The sun is ordinary star.
The sun is made of about 70% hydrogen and 28%
helium.
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5. Mercury
Mercury is solid and is covered with craters.
Mercury has almost no atmosphere.
Mercury is the eighth largest planet.
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6. Venus
Venus is the sixth largest planet. It’s about three-
fourths the size of earth.
The surface is rocky and very hot. The atmosphere
completely hides the surface and traps the heat.
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7. Earth
Earth is the fifth largest planet and the third from
the sun.
Liquid covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface.
The Earth has one moon.
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9. Mars
Mars is the fourth planet
from the sun.
Mars has a thin
atmosphere that contains
mostly carbon dioxide.
Mars has two small
moons.
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10. JUPITER
The Great Red Spot,
a huge storm of
swirling gas that has
lasted for hundreds of
years.
Jupiter does not have
a solid surface. The
planet is a ball of
liquid surrounded by
gas.
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11. Saturn
Saturn is the second largest planet and the sixth
from the sun.
Saturn is made of materials that are lighter than
water. If you could fit Saturn in a lake, it would float!
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12. Uranus
Uranus is the third
largest planet and the
seventh from the sun.
Uranus is one of the
giant gas planets.
Uranus is blue-green
because of the
methane in its
atmosphere.
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13. Neptune
Neptune is the fourth
largest planet and the
eight from the sun.
Because of the orbits,
from 1979 to 1999,
Neptune was the
ninth planet.
Like Uranus, the
methane gives
Neptune its color.
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14. Pluto
Pluto is the smallest
planet and usually the
farthest from the sun.
Pluto is the only
planet that has not
been visited by a
spacecraft.
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15. EVALUATION
What is solar system?
How many planet in the solar system?
Which is the biggest planet in the solar
system?
Which is the smallest planet in the solar
system?
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16. THANK YOU ALL
By
RAJKMAR & KARISHMA,
VIII &VI standard,
Panchayat union middle school,
Visoor, Uthiramerur union,
Kancheepuram district,
01/30/13 Tamilnadu. K.SATHIYARAJ 16