The Solar System

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The Solar System

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Name That Planet!!!

• If you need to, review the solar system.
• Look at the picture of each planet.
• Read the facts provided.
• Click the name of the correct planet based on
  what you learned in class.
• Have fun!

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• Inner planet
• Closest to the Sun
• 8th largest planet
• Has no moons
• Has almost no atmosphere
• Surface is similar to Earths moon because it is
  covered in craters

Neptune
Mars
Mercury
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• Inner planet
• 2nd closest to the Sun
• 6th largest planet
• Has no moons
• Very dense atmosphere
• Known as Earths sister planet because of its
  similar size, mass, density, and volume

Venus
Uranus
Neptune
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• Inner planet
• 3rd closest to the Sun
• 5th largest planet
• Has one moon
• Is the only planet with liquid on its surface

Saturn
Earth
Saturn
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• Inner planet
• 4th closest to the Sun
• 7th largest planet
• Has two moons (Phobos and Deimos)
• Thin atmosphere made mostly of CO2
• Shows evidence of once having liquid water on its
  surface

Venus
Mars
Jupiter
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• Outer planet
• 5th closest to sun
• Largest planet
• Has more than 60 moons
• Surface is made of gas surrounding a ball of
  liquid
• Has the Great Red Spot (a huge storm of swirling
  gas that has lasted hundreds of years)

Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
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• Outer Planet
• 6th closest to the Sun
• 2nd largest planet
• Has more than 30 moons
• Would float if placed in water
• Has thousands of orbiting rings made of rocks,
  dust, and ice

Saturn
Earth
Mercury
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• Outer planet
• 7th closest to the Sun
• 3rd largest planet
• Has more than 20 moons
• Made mostly of gas
• Is the only planet that spins on its side

Uranus
Mars
Earth
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• Outer planet
• Farthest from the sun
• 4th largest planet
• Has over 10 moons
• Its largest moon, Triton, is almost as big as
  Earths moon

Mars
Uranus
Neptune
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• Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system.

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Good Job! That was a tricky question. When Pluto
was discovered in 1930, it was considered our
solar systems ninth and smallest planet. In
2006, however, it was determined that Pluto was
not defined as a planet, but rather a dwarf
planet. Thus, Mercury is our solar systems
smallest planet!

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