Astronomy The study of the universe beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
Earth’s place in the universe
Transcript of Earth’s place in the universe
What about Planets?Planet Diameter Period of
rotation
Distance
from the
sun
Mercury 88 Days 35.98M mi
Venus 224 Days
Earth 7,917.5 mi
Mars 687 Days
Jupiter 86,881.4 mi
Saturn 888.2M mi
Uranus 84 Years
Neptune 2.795B mi
Earth’s Moon
Has 1 satellite called Moon or Luna
It is responsible for the Earth’s oceans
It is the only extraterrestrial place humans
have visited
¼ Earth’s Diameter
1/50 Earth’s Volume
1/80 Earth’s Mass
What about Earth?
3rd planet from the sun
Has moderate to mild temperatures year
round
Its atmosphere has nitrogen and oxygen
It has liquid water
Provides the right energy for life as we
know it
93 million miles from the Sun
How far is that?
To get the idea of our size and distance in
relation to the sun, we will go outside to the
football field, I will be on one end holding a
pencil, you will all be on the other end curled up
into a ball. The eraser on the pencil is earth and
you are the sun.
Day and Night
When we are facing the sun, it is daytime, and it is
night time on the opposite side of the world
When we are facing away from the sun, it is
nighttime and it is daytime on the opposite side of
the word
Works Cited
Earth and Moon to Scale. (2003). Retrieved
on June 3rd, 2016 from www.freemars.org
Grade 5th Science Resources. (2007). Delta
Education.
The Planets (2016). The Planets of the
Solar System. Retrieved on June 5th, 2016
from www.theplanets.org