1. SOLAR SYSTEM
By
RAJKMAR & KARISHMA,
VIII &VI standard,
Panchayat union middle school,
Visoor, Uthiramerur union,
Kancheepuram district,
Tamilnadu.
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2. NINE PLANETS
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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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8. THE EARTH AND THE 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,
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