The document discusses key facts about the solar system and the Earth's moon and rotation. It states that the solar system is made up of planets orbiting the sun, including eight major planets. It describes that the Earth's moon orbits the Earth and reflects sunlight, appearing in phases from new to full. It also explains that the Earth rotates daily on its axis, causing day and night, and orbits yearly around the sun along its tilted axis, leading to seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres.

2. The solar sysTem
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The solar system is made up of planets that orbit the
sun. The Sun is a star.
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Eight planets orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth ,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the Moon
is its satellite. The Moon orbits the Earth. The Sun, the
Planets, satellites, meteors, comets, and asteroid are
celestial bodies.
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These means that they are natural objects from the sky.

3. The earTh’s Moon
 The
 The
Moon is the Earth’s satellite .
moon takes about 28 days to orbit the
Earth and it rotates on its axis at the same
time. The Moon reflects the light from the
Sun. The phases of the moon are: New
moon, Crescent moon, First quarter, Full
moon, Third quarter and Crescent moon.

4. Happens
when the
moon passes
between the
Earth and the
Sun and the
Sun isn’t
visible from
the Earth.
a solar eclipse

5. The earTh’s roTaTion and orbiT
 The
Earth rotates on its axis and this rotation is
why we have day and night. It takes twenty-four
hours to rotates on its axis.
 The Earth’s axis is tilted. When the Earth orbits
the Sun, one hemisphere receives more light
and heat than the other. This causes different
climates on Earth and different seasons.
 When it’s winter in the northern hemisphere, it’s
summer in the southern hemisphere and when
it’s summer in the northern hemisphere it’s
winter in the southern hemisphere.

6. Maps and Globes
 We
use maps and globes to show the Earth.
Maps show the Earth as flat and globes show
the Earth as a sphere.
 The Equator divides the Earth into the northern
hemisphere and the southern hemisphere.
 Lines of latitude go horizontally around the Earth
but lines of longitude go vertically around the
Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.

7. Planets
Moons
Rotation
Revolution
Interesting facts
Mercury
Any moons
58 days
88 days
Is the smallest planet in the
solar system
Venus
Any moons
243 days
224 days
Is the hottest planet
Earth
One moon
24 hours
1 year
Is our planet and it’s the
third planet to the sun
Mars
No moons
24 hours
686 days
It’s a rocky planet
Jupiter
63 moons
10 hours
12 years
The biggest planet
Saturn
33 moons
10 hours
29 years
It’s a gas giant planet
Uranus
27 moons
18 hours
84 years
It’s have methane because
is blue
Neptune
13 moons
16 hours
164 years
It have methane