Planets on Parade

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Planets on Parade

• Our Solar System
• Presented by
• Lisa Haws

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How many planets are in our solar system?

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Venus

• Saturn

• Earth

• Uranus

• Mars

• Neptune

• Pluto

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The Sun

• Biggest star in the Solar System
• Gives heat and light to every planet in our solar
  system
• If you could drive to the sun in your family car,
  it would take 150 years to get there!

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Mercury

• Closest to the sun
• After Pluto, the smallest planet
• One day on Mercury is 59 Earth days!

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Venus

• Second planet from the sun
• Called the Morning Star or the Evening Star
• One of Earths neighbors

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Earth

• Third planet from the sun
• One moon
• Only planet where we know there is life!

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Mars

• The Red Planet
• Named after the Roman god of war
• Very cold!

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Jupiter

• Largest planet in our solar system
• Made of whirling gases
• Home of the Great Red Spot

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Saturn

• Beautiful rings made of ice, rock and dust
• 22 moons
• Made of gas so light it floats!

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Uranus

• Tipped on its side
• 15 moons and 10 rings
• Smaller than Saturn and Jupiter

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Neptune

• A stormy, windy planet
• Faint rings and eight moons
• Very cloudy

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Pluto

• Smallest planet
• Hard, rocky and icy
• Trades places with Neptune

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Asteroid Belt

• Between Mars and Jupiter
• Chunks of rocks circling the sun
• Separates rocky planets from gas planets

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What would you like to do now?

• Take the quiz.
• Watch the presentation again.
• 3. Quit this presentation

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1. Why is the sun important?

• It is the biggest planet in our solar system.
• It is the biggest star in our solar system.
• It gives heat and light to every planet in
• our solar system.
• It makes our solar system pretty.

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That is correct!Good job!
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2. How many moons does the Earth
have?

• It has two moons.
• It has no moons.
• It has one moon.
• It has three moons.

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That is correct!Good job!
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3. Which planet is the largest one in our Solar
System?

• The sun.
• Mars.
• Jupiter.
• Mercury.

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• That is not correct.
• Try again

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