CYCLES AND PATTERNS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEMBrittany Hoffman

CYCLES AND PATTERNS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

• Grade 5

• Earth and Space Science

• Earth an Space Science(ESS)

• ESS.35.5c – identify what can be found in the solar system

• ESS.35.6c – Recognize that the sun is a star

• ESS.35.7c – Recognize that Earth rotates on its axis

• ESS.35.5b – Compare or contrast the sun, planets, and moons that are found in the solar system

• ESS.35.7b – Recognize that Earth revolves around the sun while it rotates on its axis

• Students will participate by watching and listening and then filling out a short worksheet together in class.

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

What is a planet?

Solar system

Comets

Asteroids

Moons

WHAT IS A PLANET?Planet characteristics:

• Orbits the sun

• Roundish shape

• Not a moon

• Has cleared the neighborhood

around its orbit

SOLAR SYSTEM

• Formed 4.6 billion years ago

• Orion Arm of the Milky way galaxy

• Space crafts land on many of the planets to help us understand and learn about the solar system

• Has 8 planets, not including the sun

• Many dwarf planets

• Comets

• Asteroids

• And much more

THE SUN

• Considered a Star

• No solid surface92.1% Hydrogen, 7.8% helium

• Center of the Solar System

• Orbited by 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, many asteroids, trillions of comets and icy bodies

• No rings

• No life on Earth without the Sun

• 27 million degrees Fahrenheit

EARTH• Earth means ground

• Third from the sun

• 24 hours in a day

• 365 days to orbit the sun

• Rocky planet

• Ocean planet - 70% is water

• 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen and 1 % other

• Only Breathable planet

• One moon

• No rings

• Perfect place to live

• Atmosphere protects us from incoming meteoroids

• Four season due to rotation and tilted axis

• Rotates on its axis

• Revolves around the sun while it rotates on its axis

DWARF PLANETS

• Days and years very

• Solid, rocky and/or icy bodies

• No known rings

• Most have moons

• No known life

• Pluto is now considered a Dwarf planet as of 2006

• Not considered a moon

• Barely a round shape

Pluto

MARS• Mars means “the red one”

• 142 million miles from the sun

• Over 24 hours in a day

• Orbits the sun in 687 Earth days

• Has dust storms

• Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon

• 2 moons – Phobos and Deimos

• No rings

• Cannot support life

Mars rover

VENUS

• Almost same size as Earth

• Second closest to the Sun

• One day = 243 Earth years

• Orbits Sun in 225 Earth Days

• Volcanic Surface

• Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen

• No moons

• No rings

• No life

• Temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit

MERCURY

• Closest to the Sun

• Rocky planet

• One day = 59 Earth Days

• Orbits Sun in 88 Earth Days

• No moons

• No rings

• No life

• Temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit daytime

• Temperature of -290 degrees Fahrenheit at night

NEPTUNE

• Eighth planet from the sun

• One day = 16 hours

• Orbits Sun in 165b Earth years

• Hydrogen, helium, and methane

• Made of water, ammonia, and methane

• 13 moons

• 6 rings

• Cannot support life

URANUS

• Seventh planet from the sun

• 1,8 billion miles

• One day = 17 hours

• Orbits Sun in 84 Earth Years

• Surface is water, methane, and ammonia

• Atmosphere is hydrogen, and helium and some methane

• 27 moons

• Faint rings

• Cannot support life

SATURN

• Sixth planet from the sun

• 886 million miles ^

• One Day = 10.7 hours

• Orbits Sun in 29 Earth Years

• Gas planet- hydrogen, helium

• 53 known moons – 9 waiting confirmation

• 7 rings

• Connot support life, however the rings conditions may

JUPITER

• Named after the most important deity in both greek and roman

• Fifth planet

• 484 million miles from the sun

• One day = 10 hours

• Orbits Sun in 12 Earth years

• No solid surface – made of gas

• Hydrogen, helium

• 50 known moons, 17 awaiting confirmation

• Faint ring

• Cannot support life, but has oceans under crusts that might support life

• Great Red Spot – Gigantic storm

EARTHS MOON

• Rocky, solid-surface

• Orbits Earth in 27 Earth days

• Thin atmosphere

• No moons

• No rings

• 100 spacecrafts visited

• No life

• Earths satalite

ASTEROIDS

• Solid, rocky irregular bodies

• No atmospheres

• No rings

• Cannot support life

• One day is 4.6 hours

• Orbits sun in 4.8 Earth years

• Orbits between orbits of Mars & Jupiter known as Asteroid Belt

COMETS• Days very from 2.2 to 7.4 Earth days

• Warms as it nears the Sun

• No rings

• No moons

• Frozen gas, rock and dust

• Cannot support life but may have brought water and organic compounds

Video on planets

• Resources:

Solar system exploration. (1998). Retrieved from http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Outer space: "we are the planets" the solar system song.. (2013, august 02). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAqT4hXnMw